What Is A Normal Cholesterol Reading?

Posted on Mon, 20 Oct 2014

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Mon, 20 Oct 2014 Answered on

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Question :

What is a normal cholesterol reading? my e-mail is YYYY@YYYY

Answered by Dr. Dr. Rovena (1 hour later)

Brief Answer:
Total cholesterol under 200 mg/dl.

Detailed Answer:
Hello!
Welcome to HealthcareMagic.

It's important to keep your cholesterol levels within healthy limits.

A normal level of total cholesterol is under 200 mg/dl.

LDL-cholesterol or "bad" cholesterol should be under 100 mg/dl to be considered normal or optimal value.
HDL cholesterol or " good cholesterol" normal range is above 60 mg/dl.

Hope it helps.
Let me know if you have other questions or doubts to clarify.I will be happy to assist you further.

Kind regards,
Dr.Rovena Murati

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