What Do My Lab Test Reports Indicate?

Posted on Mon, 13 Jun 2016

Question: I have undergone medical tests and wants opinion on my test results.I have attached my reports.Should I undergo any medication or change in food and regular exercise would be sufficient.

Answered by Dr. Anantharamakrishnan (1 hour later)

Brief Answer:
No drug now - only Life Style Changes for 2 months and repeat

Detailed Answer:
Hi friend
Welcome to Health Care Magic

Most of the test results are normal except mild increase of LDL cholesterol and Triglyceride

Triglycerides – desirable Level: < 150 mg/dL \ Borderline : 150 - 199 mg/dL \ High : 200 - 499
mg/dL \ Very High : > 500 mg/dL

HDL is good cholesterol – higher, the better. LDL is bad cholesterol – lower, the better.
In the absence of any other risk factor 100 is ideal for LDL-C.

Keep your weight to normal / even a little less
     Quit smoking, if you are a smoker
     Do regular EXERCISE – say walking or jogging - 30 minutes a day / at least 5 days in a week. Isometric exercise (like bull worker) is bad.
     Healthy FOOD is a must. Avoid saturated fats – coconut oil, palm oil, butter, ghee, full cream milk...Avoid junk foods in particular – French fries have palm oil / Pizza has cheese / XXXXXXX sweets are made in ghee.../ Change to Poly-un-saturated oil – like sun flower oil. / Include Mono-un-saturated oil – Olive oil.

Repeat the test in 2 to 3 months. .. after a full 14-hour fast
Cholesterol can still be high, in spite of diet and exercise – you need drugs; because it is also manufactured in the liver – and that is determined by heredity. Statin is the first choice.

Good luck
God bless you

Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Prasad

Follow up: Dr. Anantharamakrishnan (23 hours later)

We are using 2 Rice rich oil,2 Sunflower oil packets per month,drink 2 cups of coffee with 1 table spoon sugar daily,breakfast(Idly/Upma/Chapati),lunch(2 bowls brown rice,curry,curd),dinner(2 bowls brown rice,curry,curd)/chapati.Evening 4-5 biscuits.

This is the food menu i follow.Should i change anything in the food habits.

Does the previous day food/timing have any impact on the cholesterol test result

Answered by Dr. Anantharamakrishnan (27 minutes later)

Brief Answer:
Yes, good

Detailed Answer:
Hi

The menu is alright – no need to change
These oils are polyunsaturated fat and good… / Include olive oil too – monounsaturated… / but take care - oil is calorie dense... 1 gram of oil has 8 calories (twice as rice, which is 4 calories) and you may gain weight with more oil!!
Include lot of vegetables / some fruits
Use low fat (<1.5 %) milk and curd / or no fat (<0.5% fat)
Cholesterol is partly made in the body / and also influenced by food… a 12 to 14 hour fast eliminates food’s influence on the test

Regards

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Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar