Cholesterol Blood Test

CHOLESTEROL (LIPIDS) BLOOD TEST

Understanding your cardiovascular risk is in fact more complicated than simply measuring your cholesterol levels with a blood test.

Cholesterol can be divided into "good" and "bad" cholesterol. Good cholesterol (HDL cholesterol), actually helps lower your cardiovascular risk, while "bad" cholesterol (LDL or non-HDL cholesterol), can cause problems.

A blood test for cholesterol checks for both of these as well as the all-important total cholesterol/HDL ratio: which is essential for accurately assessing your risks. You can use this data along with a number of other parameters such as blood pressure, age, sex and family history, and put it into a QRisk calculator. This estimates your risk of heart attacks and strokes in the next ten years.

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