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What affects the amount total cholesterol in your body?
Which of the following affects the amount of total cholesterol in your body? if you are an flvs student the answere is all of the above that's what i put.
Cholesterol Scale Measures Total Amount and Ratio of Fats in the Blood?
The cholesterol scale measures the amount and percentage of three different fats in the blood: high-density lipoproteins (HDL), low-density lipoproteins (LDL) and triglycerides. Levels are indicated for total cholesterol and for each component. The scale delineates desirable, borderline and high ranges for each type. Desirable levels for total cholesterol in the blood should be under 200 mg/dl. For LDLs, also known as the bad cholesterol, the number should be 130 or less. HDL levels should be 50 or higher, while triglycerides, which are fats in the blood that provide energy, should be less than 200.
What does CHOL mean in blood test?
CHOL in a blood test typically stands for total cholesterol, which is a measure of the total amount of cholesterol in your blood, including both HDL (good) cholesterol and LDL (bad) cholesterol. High levels of total cholesterol can increase your risk for heart disease and other health issues.
Which nutrient affects the amount of cholesterol found in the body?
Total cholesterol includes the good, or HDL, High Density LipoProtein, and the bad, LDL, Low Density Lipoprotein. A few things affect the total number. Saturated Fat, fat found in animal products (and coconut and palm oils), and cholesterol, only found in animal products, affect the total cholesterol.
Is 266 a high count for cholesterol in a woman age 43?
Yes, that is very high. Your total cholesterol level is made up of many different parts, but in general your total cholesterol level should be less than 200.
What is the level for bad cholesterol?
240 mg and above is considered to be high, or "bad". Your target cholesterol should be about 200 mg or below. Those numbers are for total cholesterol, you should note that there are different kinds of cholesterol, so be sure to do your research if you want to be more specific.
Why is it important to reduce dietary intake of cholesterol?
If a doctor or someone else told you that it's important to reduce your dietary intake of cholesterol, then they were wrong. It's true that someone should not go crazy and eat a pound of chicken or beef liver or a pound of shrimp or a pound of lobster with real butter all over it or a pound of bacon every day, but the amount of cholesterol one gets from a normal, meat-eating diet is a small percentage of the amount of cholesterol that person's liver (the liver is the primary cholesterol factory, but not the only one) makes on its own, plus the liver produces less cholesterol when cholesterol is consumed, therefore dietary cholesterol has no effect on ones total cholesterol level unless that person goes nuts and eats a whole lot of it. One more thing; although one large egg yolk does contain about 90 mg of cholesterol, multiple studies have proven that the cholesterol in eggs does not increase ones cholesterol. It was theorized that there was some chemical compound in eggs that prevented them from raising a person's "bad" cholesterol, which is vLDL, and LDL cholesterols. That compound was subsequently discovered and found to be the B vitamin choline and one form of it called phosphatidyl choline. Egg yolks contain lecithin, and lecithin is made of phospholipids including phosphatidyl inositol and phosphatidyl serine - essential compounds for the body. Finally, not only do eggs not raise someones cholesterol, they actually increase the level of "good," or HDL cholesterol.
Where can I find information about cholesterol hdl ratio?
Your cholesterol HDL ratio is calculated by dividing your high-density lipoprotein (HDL, or "good") cholesterol into your total cholesterol. Your doctor can assist you in advising what your optimum HDL ratio should be.
How can I get a better cholesterol level?
You should try to maintain a total cholesterol level of below 5.2 and a LDL cholesterol level of below 2.6. To help you lower your cholesterol level, you should eat more whole grains and vegetables, and less red meat, especially fatty meats.
What Are Healthy Cholesterol Numbers?
Every day doctors tell their patients that they have high cholesterol, and will then blurt out a whole bunch of numbers, usually associated with LDL cholesterol, HDL cholesterol, triglycerides, and total cholesterol. However, many of these patients are not aware of what these numbers mean. Optimal LDL "bad" cholesterol levels should be less than 100. Levels over 160 are considered high, and efforts should be made to lower this number. HDL "good" cholesterol, which protects against heart attacks, should be 60 or higher, but no lower than 40 in men, and 50 in women. Triglycerides levels should be 150 or lower. Total cholesterol should be maintained at levels no higher than 200.
The results of blood tests that reveal a person's total cholesterol and triglycerides are called a?
lipid
What is total blood cholesterol?
Total blood cholesterol is determined by adding your HDL (good cholesterol) and your LDL (bad cholesterol) together and then dividing your triglyceride number by 5 and adding that number to your HDL and LDL number which will give you the total cholesterol.
