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Is the total cholesterol the sum total cholesterol or is it total non-HDL cholesterol (only including LDL+VLDL)?

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Jeff · Answer 1 · 2011-09-24 23:13:31Z UTC

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no it's HDL+LDL+ Triglycerides divided by 5

answered Sep 24 2011 at 23:13

Jeff
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To make it clearer, HDL+LDL+(Triglicerides/5) – memostotle Sep 25 2011 at 0:18

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*to make it "more clear"... or to "clarify". – Jack Kronk Sep 25 2011 at 2:39

lol yep to both comments – Jeff Sep 25 2011 at 5:46

MasterB · Answer 2 · 2011-09-25 03:35:48Z UTC

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You shouldn't worry about total cholesterol at all, if your trigs are down adn your HDL is high enough, everything is fine. Relax

answered Sep 25 2011 at 3:35

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	Well within reason, if your TC is somewhere 180-250 its propably optimal. I doubt something like 300-460 is any good. Atleast havent seen any evidence to support that. – Jan Sep 25 2011 at 5:00
	If your trigs are in check, so will be your tc. – MasterB Sep 26 2011 at 0:11
	Jan2- My Trig is 57, HDL is 81 and total is 345...always happens when I add home rendered pork cracklings to my diet. All that LDL is going to be the benign , light fluffy variety with the trigs and HDL as they are. – Richard N Sep 27 2011 at 23:49

Michael RB · Answer 3 · 2011-09-25 11:05:12Z UTC

Jeff's calculation is right and this is why total cholesterol is an idiotic number. There is no reason to add, it just obfuscates what is going on. Adding a positive correlated number to two negatively correlated numbers is going to harm the predictive power.

People want to use cholesterol as a linear predictor but it cannot be well used that way because of its construction.

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