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Message: <blockquote data-quote="librarising" data-source="post: 1498320" data-attributes="member: 41957">More recently some opinion has swung away from concern about total cholesterol, LDL levels, and focussed on the trigs/HDL ratio as being all-important."If lipid values are expressed as mmol/L (like in Australia, Canada, and Europe);TG/HDL-C ratio less than 0.87 is idealTG/HDL-C ratio above 1.74 is too highTG/HDL-C ratio above 2.62 is much too high"<a href="http://www.docsopinion.com/2014/07/17/triglyceride-hdl-ratio/" target="_blank">http://www.docsopinion.com/2014/07/17/triglyceride-hdl-ratio/</a>Your signature figures show this ratio coming down from 5.15 to 1. The higher ratio was BAD. Now it's fine (just above ideal).Your best defence against statin-pushing HCPs is self-education.Geoff p.s. nice name <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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