So faras I know LDL is usually calculated using a formula .. the name of which escapes me.. maybe "Real LDL" is LDL that has actually been measured rather than calculated?
@Bluetit1802 is usually more on the ball than me about that!
Thus, LDL-C calculations may have limitations when blood triglyceride levels are either high or low.
So faras I know LDL is usually calculated using a formula .. the name of which escapes me.. maybe "Real LDL" is LDL that has actually been measured rather than calculated?
@Bluetit1802 is usually more on the ball than me about that!
It was from here but doesn't say what is "low" or "high"How low is low? Do we know? I wonder if mine are low according to that, at 0.6. According to the standard range on my lab reports, the range starts at zero. So presumably if we have no trigs we are still normal.
"Statistical analysis showed that when triglyceride is <100 mg/dL, calculated low- density lipoprotein cholesterol is significantly overestimated"How low is low? Do we know? I wonder if mine are low according to that, at 0.6. According to the standard range on my lab reports, the range starts at zero. So presumably if we have no trigs we are still normal.
"Statistical analysis showed that when triglyceride is <100 mg/dL, calculated low- density lipoprotein cholesterol is significantly overestimated"
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18426324
100 mg/dL equates to 2.6 mmol/L
Geoff
Isn't 100mg/dl - 5.5 mmol/l? does the divide by 18 rule not apply when its triglycerides?"Statistical analysis showed that when triglyceride is <100 mg/dL, calculated low- density lipoprotein cholesterol is significantly overestimated"
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18426324
100 mg/dL equates to 2.6 mmol/L
Geoff
Isn't 100mg/dl - 5.5 mmol/l? does the divide by 18 rule not apply when its triglycerides?
We're both wrong. I'd searched a trigs converter, and failed to notice it was a cholesterol converter !Isn't 100mg/dl - 5.5 mmol/l? does the divide by 18 rule not apply when its triglycerides?
****** complicated all these differing units.. Interesting though that Blood Glucose converts by dividing by 18 but trigs don't even though the units are the same.. mg/dl to mmol/l ...No, it doesn't. It is a different calculation. I used to know it, but have forgotten.
Just seen your above post.Well done, that makes more sense than the one @librarising came up with. So basically, under 1.1mmol/l is low.
Ah so that explains my post above.. thanks GeoffWe're both wrong. I'd searched a trigs converter, and failed to notice it was a cholesterol converter !
It's blood readings that convert at a ratio of 18.
Since mg/dL is measuring something different in nature to mmol/L, US mg/dL measurements of cholesterol and trigs convert at different rates to UK mmol/L.
Cholesterol : 1 mmol/L = 38.8 mg/dL
Triglycerides : 1 mmol/L = 88.5 mg/dL
So 100 mg/dL is not 2.6 mmol/L but 1.13 mmol/L
This is why US trigs/HDL ratios are roughly twice UK ratios.
Hope that makes sense !
Geoff
Bloody complicated all these differing units.. Interesting though that Blood Glucose converts by dividing by 18 but trigs don't even though the units are the same.. mg/dl to mmol/l ...
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