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How do I know if I have high levels of bad cholesterol? Total cholesterol: less than 5.2 millimoles per litre (mmol/L) Is ideal and more than 6.2 mmol/L is considered high. HDL cholesterol: more than 0.9 mmol/L is desirable. LDL cholesterol: less than 3.5 mmol/L is considered ideal and more than 4.0 mmol/L is high.
These are the adult ranges for LDL cholesterol: Optimal: Less than 100 mg/dL (This is the goal for people with diabetes or heart disease.) Near optimal: 100 to 129 mg/dL. Borderline high: 130 to 159 mg/dL. High: 160 to 189 mg/dL. Very high: 190 mg/dL and higher. Lipid Panel | Johns Hopkins Medicine hopkinsmedicine.org health lipid-panel hopkinsmedicine.org health lipid-panel
Your health care team can do a simple blood test, called a lipid profile, to measure your cholesterol levels.
LDL and HDL Cholesterol and Triglycerides LDL (low-density lipoprotein) cholesterol, sometimes called bad cholesterol, makes up most of your bodys cholesterol. HDL (high-density lipoprotein) cholesterol, sometimes called good cholesterol, absorbs cholesterol in the blood and carries it back to the liver. LDL and HDL Cholesterol and Triglycerides | cdc.gov Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (.gov) cholesterol ldlhdl Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (.gov) cholesterol ldlhdl
A simple blood test called a lipid panel is used to measure total cholesterol, HDL cholesterol and triglycerides, another type of fat molecule. Also included is LDL cholesterol, which is normally estimated rather than directly measured, since its direct measurement is more difficult.
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The following levels are considered to be good in healthy people: Total cholesterol: Levels below 200 mg/dL (5.2 mmol/L) LDL cholesterol: Levels below 130 mg/dL (3.4 mmol/L) HDL cholesterol: Levels above 40 mg/dL (1 mmol/L) in men and above 50 mg/dL (1.3 mmol/L) in women. High cholesterol: Overview - InformedHealth.org - NCBI National Institutes of Health (NIH) (.gov) books NBK279318 National Institutes of Health (NIH) (.gov) books NBK279318
The target for non-HDL cholesterol is no greater than 30 milligrams per deciliter (mg/dL) above your recommended LDL level. For example, if your LDL target is under 100 mg/dL, you should strive for a non-HDL cholesterol level of 130 mg/dL or less. What is non-HDL cholesterol? - Harvard Health harvard.edu heart-health what-is- harvard.edu heart-health what-is-
A cholesterol test can measure: total cholesterol the overall amount of cholesterol in your blood. good cholesterol (called HDL) this may make you less likely to have heart problems or a stroke. non-HDL cholesterol the difference between total cholesterol and HDL.

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