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So, you’re worried about your cholesterol levels and you have a blood test. Tragedy, the blood test reveals your total cholesterol levels are over 200.
What does this really mean...
Cholesterol was off by as much as 100%. You might think, "How can that be, this test has been adminstered...!
The standard test for cholesterol, the one in use in the overwhelming majority of clinical medical practices... 
known?
But just because the standard cholesterol test is but a snapshot of a dynamic system in flux... only a snapshot of a glimpse into the cholesterol content of your HDL particles. Among most groups tested, the TC...
After last week’s post on interpreting traditional lipid tests , I promised a follow-up post on interpreting the advanced VAP and NMR Lipoprofile tests that provide measurements of particle size... 
In a bid to take over the world, Quest laboratories has patented the LDL(bad cholesterol) test... million Americans and now through the miracle of patents, Quest owns the rights to all cholesterol testing...
From KTAR…..
A government recommendation that all children be tested for cholesterol....
“The challenge is, when you start cholesterol screening, you begin to maybe create a culture where you’re... 
As many of you know, I’ve been traveling around a bit, speaking about our best-selling book “The Great Cholesterol Myth”, and one of the things I’ve been saying is that conventional cholesterol tests
that high levels of high-density lipoprotein HDL cholesterol (the “good cholesterol”) are associated.... However, recent findings have called into question the notion that pharmacologic increases in HDL cholesterol... 
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