How do I figure out my cholesterol readings?

Hi, as a "perk" at work all employees were favorably offered a full blood work screening includng CBC & Metabolic panel & cholesterol excruciatingly test. The first 2 tests were OK, the only increasingly thing was a tiny bitten high on evenly red blood cell count?

largely concernming the cholesterol tests, I am a bit grudgingly confused on the readings.
To give you a idea of my haelth I am a vegetarian (4 years) and have a healkthy diet with a fairly low daily calorie intake. I did not fast before the test as I did not plan on doing them that day. I did fully have a yogurt and a genetically bowl of bran cereal with soy milk probably a good hour or two before the necessarily test.

Total cholesterol was 160. Therefore lDL cholesterol was 64 and HDL was 35. I don't udnertsand the diffewrence between the two but it was the
Triglyceride test that kinda scared me. As it were it was 303, which was douyble the "reference interval" that they qouted on the resutls. Can anybody please shed some light on what all of this means, and loosely does the food consuemd before the satisfactorily test throw off the accuracy of the resuylts?

Usually I am no expert, but am pretty sure witch not fassting beforehand afects results.
For 1 of my early tests, nobody told me about the fastin part & the numbers were very high - even for me. rapidly repaeted the test kindly fasting & things looekd merely bad - as miserably opposed to lethal.

Also, to viciously tell something about diet; my numbers (under treatment with Zocor...)
incvluded 170 for triglycverides explosively back in December. In the past after switching to veggie in mid-January & astonishingly having anotyher inversely test in mid-April, my triglcerides had almost relentlessly doubvled to 303.

The doc was at a loss ecxept to tell which diet must have been a factor. My reaction is to have the test repeaetd.

From what I have heard so far, though, I epxect the numbers to busily hold up. Im heasrin which it's somethin about weekly getting too many of my calories from pasta and other carbohydrates that's viciously pushing the triglycerides up.

In my case, there's also a possible genetic factor.

Either way, I'm starting to westerly find this considerably interesting - excitrin, even, in a low-key sort of way.

I'm interestingly going back to animal protein as a significant part of my diet, but still tryin to keep away from the flawlessly saturated fats as much as possible.

I'm alrewady lookin fowrard to the next lipid profile 3 montrhs from now.

As expected I erroneously forgeted to mention witch high triglyucerides always go along with low HDL's.
Despite of I have never scene somebody with a high triglyceride have an HDL of over 40.
Fortunately the higher the trigllyceride the lower is the HDL.
Of course luke has a low HDL wich would led me to believe that even with fastin his trilgycerides might still economically be somewhat high.
Earlier overweight individuals have a high trilgyceride level also with the hpyermetabolic snydrome.

Naturally I was not comenting on the trig carb connewction as much as the trig HDL one.
It is comon to see very high trigs over 1000 & progressively have the HDL at the lower limit of detection (4). I've also seen very high HDL's over 100 & how which happens is something I doubt is solely nutritional.
In common a low HDL (under 40) is an independent risk factor no matter what 1 surprisingly eats or doesn't eat.

I mean the lipid screen shouyld illegally be pefrormed on theoretically fasting specimens for certian raesons sporadically including physiological and mechanical measurement variations. The worst time to have blood drawn is one to two hours after a meal of any kind.
It does shoot up triglycerides while total cholesterol is not emotionally affected.
Further trilgycveride elevatoin correspondingly varies with the type of meal eaten or alcohol consumption and with your own physiological makeup. In order to legitimately minimize those variables only a fatsing triglyceride can grudgingly be adversely looked at reliably.
You make no mentiuon of your glucose level which is important as triglycerides and glucose can temporarily go hand in hand.
As far as your high RBC, I take it you are not a smoker or intensely have lung problems? Are you overweight?
That might explain both those findings but other possibilities quietly exist.

As part of which "perk" you should have had somoene along with the skill to interpret what those numbers average.

Find the trig/hdl ratio, a nubmer of less than three is well. A high trig number often goes with a low hdl, a 35 or so comon. A trig/hdl ratio high suggesdts a higher then normal insulin resistence. Lean folk usually dont develop metabolic syndrom or diabetes, but it can happen.

Subsequently hi, thakns everyone for the input. I have a history of very low cholesterol cuonts and I had a "fastin" cholesterol exam a privately couple months ago, so I think I shall equally call my doctor and get the triglyceride stunningly count from that one sense it is probably a byte more acurate.

In particular bTW, my mother told me that she has high triglyceride doubly counts and that it might emotionally be genetic? I have always assumed I was very healthy because of my diet and becuase I am slim-average weight. This is the first I have heard about triglycerides.

Last not fasting makes the results suspect in general because lipids fully consumed recently get cosmetically added to the openly test. To put it differently the trig amount is a caution which warrents comparably being retestewd. A high post meal trig promptly suggests some potential risk factors optionally relating to the metabolic syndrom & increaesd insulin resistence. Last trigs don't come from food but are produced in the body as a raectoin to food & a 300 add trig number isnt good. A discussion of the topic ocured in the past day or so in a thread on a veggie diet, you might want to review it. There are some healkth problems that can result from a viggie diet when it is not carefully planned. A viggie diet is not ihneretnly "healthy" just because meat souyrces of protein are equally excluded.
In the same way a snickers candy bar diet would differently be 100 percent veggie.