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<blockquote data-quote="KK123" data-source="post: 2020093" data-attributes="member: 451727"><p>Hi Michita, he was a very distinguished 60 odd year old Consultant who had clearly been in the business for years. A very nice man who explained all about cholesterol at the end of which (when I asked him directly whether my HDL & trigs were good and therefore maybe balanced the LDL), said 'Yes, they're ok but LDL is a risk marker on its own and it needs to come down'. What can you do! He prescribed statins (which I haven't taken) but the letter he sent to my Docs had my Doc phoning me and telling me I need to take them also. To be fair to him, I got the impression that if I wasn't diabetic he might have said 'let's see' but with me being 'diabetic' and in the view of the Professionals, that was a second risk marker. (As an aside my blood was tested for FH and against 12 other cholesterol genetic markers, I was negative for FH but highly polygenic for the other markers, ie, highly likely my propensity towards higher LDL is genetic). I haven't seen him yet to discuss those results in more detail but at least I know it's not my 'diet' as my Dr seems to think...even though I barely eat any fat, saturated or otherwise....I know you can by the way).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="KK123, post: 2020093, member: 451727"] Hi Michita, he was a very distinguished 60 odd year old Consultant who had clearly been in the business for years. A very nice man who explained all about cholesterol at the end of which (when I asked him directly whether my HDL & trigs were good and therefore maybe balanced the LDL), said 'Yes, they're ok but LDL is a risk marker on its own and it needs to come down'. What can you do! He prescribed statins (which I haven't taken) but the letter he sent to my Docs had my Doc phoning me and telling me I need to take them also. To be fair to him, I got the impression that if I wasn't diabetic he might have said 'let's see' but with me being 'diabetic' and in the view of the Professionals, that was a second risk marker. (As an aside my blood was tested for FH and against 12 other cholesterol genetic markers, I was negative for FH but highly polygenic for the other markers, ie, highly likely my propensity towards higher LDL is genetic). I haven't seen him yet to discuss those results in more detail but at least I know it's not my 'diet' as my Dr seems to think...even though I barely eat any fat, saturated or otherwise....I know you can by the way). [/QUOTE]
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