Quick question on the nature of cholesterol tests

Dougie22 · Sep 22, 2011

Keeping it really, really simple (is this possible?), can anyone tell me what time frame the common total cholesterol blood test, as done by your GP, covers.
By which I mean:
* Is it an instant snapshot, like a fasting blood glucose, subject to daily or hourly change, or
* Is it a longer term view, as in, say HbA1c

Thanks

alaska · Sep 22, 2011

I think these are snapshots -but I could be proved wrong.

I know that main reason they ask for cholesterol tests to be fasting is that triglyceride levels tend to rise after meals.

I think with the trigs it is more like a finger prick test than A1c.

I think with LDL and HDL, they are literally measuring the amount of these in the blood and if this is true, this would be more like a finger prick test than an HbA1c again.

Quick question on the nature of cholesterol tests

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Quick question on the nature of cholesterol tests

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