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Originally Posted by donnahill8
Mine:
WAS NOW
cholestrol 171 193
triglyceride 92 129
cholestrol, HDL 37.8 39.6
LDL (calc) 115 127
LDL/HDL ratio 3.0 3.2
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I'm more worried about the triglyceride rise more than anything right now. If your LDL is pattern A (most likely is) it's no problem at any rate. You can have the doctor test your LDL pattern if you like, or get a prescription for one at another lab.
Also, unless you are a man who has heart disease, do NOT go on a statin, it will not do one bit of good. (and even then there's the increased hemorrhagic stroke, depression, cancer mortality, diabetes risk, suicide, etc.)
There isn't such thing as too high of a cholesterol.
Some data on familial hypercholesterolemia (people who can have cholesterol in the upper hundreds):
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The Simon Broome Familal Hyperlipidaemia Register Group followed 3000 people with hypercholesterolemia, at most recent (2009), 102 of them died of a heart attack. But that's not all, but if you take the same age group in the English population they calculated the expected number to be 40.
Finland- 30 people died, 26 of heart attack, 4 of other causes. 67% of those who died smoked, while 41% was that for the survivors. Initial LDL (bad cholesterol) was the same for those who died and those who were still alive.
UK, US, Canada- Found cholesterol varied little from those with heart disease and those without, in fact, those with the highest LDL had no heart disease.
Netherlands- People with familial hypercholesterolemia lived longer according to Dr. Eric Sijbrands and co-workers who studied university hospitals.
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All info on the above studies taken from a book by Uffe Ravnskov, also, in his book, one study showed: People before 1900's, the most common cause of death was infectious diseases, yet those with familial hypercholesterolemia lived longer, again, cholesterol is a good guy.
Your HDL is a little low, but I'm not too concerned about that. I would be more interested in a high sensitivity c-reactive protein (hs-CRP) report than anything. VLDL would be nice to be directly measured as well (highly destructive lipoproteins which carry triglycerides around).
Here's even more evidence to say that cholesterol isn't the villain:
http://oi52.tinypic.com/13z4xeg.jpg
Also:
The UCLA study of 2009 of 541 hospitals yielded the following results:
75% of heart attack patients had LDL in the "safe range." 21% of patients were on statins.
50% of heart attack patients had LDL in the "optimal range."
As for the second part of your post, the A1C looks good, but that's all I can say on the subject.
Edit: Since I had the time, I compiled a list of things you can do to lower your risk of heart disease-
http://curehdn.posterous.com/inflam...not-cholesterol