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If you don't know the difference between HDL and LDL, your health could be in jeopardy.
Low is bad, so LDL is bad, and the HDL is good.
Marvin passes the test, now. Not long ago, his cholesterol was high. He says he hasn't eaten badly as an adult, but he was raised on saturated foods.
Chicken fat and extra skin from the chicken.
With an entire nation of people like Marvin, facing serious health concerns from high cholesterol, the national cholesterol educational panel recently changed its criteria.
People who may have been told in the past that diet and exercise was what they needed to do for their cholesterol, might be told now by their physicians that they need medical therapy or drugs to lower their cholesterol.
Sixty-seven-year-old Gilbert Weinstein [wine-steen] has been taking a cholesterol-lowering drug for about a month, and he’s already seeing results.
Particularly the triglycerides, it came way down.
Triglycerides are another part of your cholesterol that you need to be watching.
We've started to learn that in cases where the triglycerides are high and the HDL is low, especially in people who are overweight, they can have something called the metabolic syndrome.
The metabolic syndrome can be associated with diabetes. So it’s important to get a full cholesterol check, with a breakdown of your h-d-l, l-d-l, and triglyceride levels. So don’t count out cholesterol, it might be time to get yours checked. For WebMD, I'm Sandee LaMotte.
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