Katrina286
09-14-2002, 09:00 AM
I just received my cholesterol results but I don't really understand these numbers. Could anyone help me here. I'm a 40 year old female, 5ft 5 125lbs HDL 70 and LDL 102. Thanks
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Sponsor phja 09-14-2002, 09:59 AM hi, thats great,whats your total and trigs?was your cholesterol high before? JJ 09-14-2002, 02:50 PM Your HDL is your good cholesterol, so the higher the better, and yours is good. The LDL is your bad, still yours is good. I know they have uped the guidelines for them to be lower, but this is about as average as I can give ya! What numbers should be: TC........Below 200 LDL.......Below 160 HDL.......Above 40 Trigs.....Below 200 Of course U have to take into consideration any other risk factors, like diabetes, high BP, smoking, overweight, not very active and a family history of any early heart disease. I'm sure others will give U more info. but for now, looks to me like your doing ok. Keep us posted how things are going. http://www.healthboards.com/ubb/wave.gif JJ jim5554 09-14-2002, 09:09 PM Damn, I wish my numbers looked like that! The LDL's are low, the HDL's are high and the ratio between the two is terrific. If we can believe what the experts say, your arteries should be clean as a whistle. Katrina286 09-18-2002, 07:58 PM You guys are great thanks! I do feel pretty healthy and i lead a healthy life, work out, don't smoke although i do like my beer!! I was told last year that my cholesterol was 210...but they took it after i had eaten so i don't even know if those figures are accurate now. I do take the Red Rice and i've been taking that for about 4 months now, so I don't know if it worked or if their reading was just way off! |
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