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What's the test to identify the large, fluffy LDL component?
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<blockquote data-quote="forty six" data-source="post: 677752" data-attributes="member: 72202"><p><span style="font-size: 15px">I know this sounds strange but I have recently found out that they do not actually test for LDL or trigs as it is just far too expensive.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">This information came from Zoe Harcombe's website:</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><strong>'Cholesterol – what does the blood cholesterol test actually measure?'</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">Therefore of the 4 figures they give you only 2 are evidence based, when I asked my DN if this was true she said yes and she called it a 'scientific estimate'. I asked how the words scientific and estimate went together as science is based on evidence and known facts, she had no answer.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">My cholesterol recently changed quite dramatically - went from 5 to 5.4 - but I was told that my LDL and trigs are dangerously high and that I should start statins right now to make sure I live another 10 years! That is what the locum said to me and I am only 47.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">Now I know that they don't actually test for those - <strong>how can he know what they are?</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="forty six, post: 677752, member: 72202"] [SIZE=4]I know this sounds strange but I have recently found out that they do not actually test for LDL or trigs as it is just far too expensive. This information came from Zoe Harcombe's website: [B]'Cholesterol – what does the blood cholesterol test actually measure?'[/B] Therefore of the 4 figures they give you only 2 are evidence based, when I asked my DN if this was true she said yes and she called it a 'scientific estimate'. I asked how the words scientific and estimate went together as science is based on evidence and known facts, she had no answer. My cholesterol recently changed quite dramatically - went from 5 to 5.4 - but I was told that my LDL and trigs are dangerously high and that I should start statins right now to make sure I live another 10 years! That is what the locum said to me and I am only 47. Now I know that they don't actually test for those - [B]how can he know what they are?[/B] [/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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