Need input into my lipids please

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Yip, can get that in my country.
It's within range : 149 mg/L. Range is 0 to 200mg/L.
Um...what does that mean?
Ps. I have zilch CVD disease in my ancestry even to late 80s.
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Stavia, Just to pile on… those numbers look ideal to me. Actually quite a positive sign that your body is producing an optimal state largely independent of diet. Whereas I also recognize the improved TG/HDL ratio, even that is a minor change to that needed by many. No further hacking needed.
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Stavia,

Are we talking the same test? I tested at 53 nmol/L last summer. The range on your test does not agree:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lipoprotei ... ic_testing
Lipoprotein(a) - Lp(a)[37]
Desirable: < 14 mg/dL (< 35 nmol/l)
Borderline risk: 14 - 30 mg/dL (35 - 75 nmol/l)
High risk: 31 - 50 mg/dL (75 - 125 nmol/l)
Very high risk: > 50 mg/dL (> 125 nmol/l)

My 3/3 friend with a 130 nmol/L Lp(a) has Tg/HDL ratio less than 1 (md/dL) with small LDL-P < 100 and LDL-P> 2,000. Yet her CIMT results are static year over year.
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George, my test is in mg/l. It would convert to 14.9 mg/dl surely? 10 decilitres to a litre?
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Russ, thanks for your comment. That's actually my gut feeling, that my body keeps a steady state within a wide variation of macronutrient percentages. Which would be a huge relief as I could eat freely within a range without obsessively tracking everything.
And agreed, I think the minor variation is the margin of error of the test.
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Stavia,

Good call - I missed that detail!

That is an excellent reading, so something you certainly don't have to worry about!!!!

Good news.

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Phew
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Stavia wrote:I could eat freely within a range without obsessively tracking everything.
That fairly describes what I do. If I had to obsessively track everything I ate, it would take the most of the pleasure out of living.

What little there is left. ;)
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Amen, Brother Teezer.
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