Regular Drinker, Had Lipid Profile Test Done, HDL Cholesterol Seems To Be On The Higher Side. What Does It Indicate?

Posted on Sun, 19 May 2013

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Question : Got my lipid profile test. Values are like this Cholesterol Total-159.00m Triglycerides 63.00, HDL Cholesterol 69.00, LDLCholesterol Calculated 77.40, VLDLCholesterol Calculated-12.60. It seems that HDL Cholestrol are on higher side. What does it indicate? I am regular drinker.

Answered by Dr. Anantharamakrishnan (12 hours later)

Hi friend,
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There are subdivisions of cholesterol – LDL, HDL and so on.
LDL (& non-HDL) is bad cholesterol (deposits in blood vessels) – lower, the better.
HDL is good cholesterol (moves deposits out of blood vessels) – HIGHER, THE BETTER.
In the absence of any other risk factor LDL of 100 or less is ideal; 70 is excellent...

Your lipid profile is very good...

Alcohol is bad for several organs in the long term – liver, heart, brain and so on...Take care...

God bless
Good luck

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