What's the ideal cholesterol level for type 2?

Hello everyone,

I'm a type 2, diagnosed in May 2012. I've reduced my blood sugar levels and initially got my cholesterol down to between the recommended level of 1-5 mmol/L, but my last blood test was just above that 5 - 5.3.

What is the ideal cholesterol level for a type 2? What's your cholesterol? This is for serum cholesterol by the way, rather than serum LDL cholesterol (my level there is 3.6, which is outside of the 1-3 recommended range).

Thanks very much. I've been focussing so much on reducing my blood sugars that I've probably not focussed too much on cholesterol. Time to get this sorted now...

Sorry I seem to have got my ratings slightly wrong. They are:

Triglycerides 0.8
HDL 1.3
LDL 3.6

My serum cholesterol is 5.3
And my serum cholesterol/HDL ratio is 4.1

Thanks for the reply. Where did you get those figures from? The ones quoted on this site are as follows:

• Total cholesterol: under 4.0 mmol/l
• LDL levels: under 2.0 mmol/l
• HDL levels: at least 1.0 mmol/l (men) or 1.2 mmol/l (women)
• Triglycerides: 1.7 mmol/l or less
• Total cholesterol/HDL ratio: under 5.0

http://www.diabetes.co.uk/Diabetes-and-cholesterol.html