I was wondering if anyone could help me- I’ve just had a blood test and, apologies for the UK scales, but it showed my total cholesterol to be just 2.6 mmol/L (5.0 mmol/L is recommended upper limit in UK).
The Doc was quite amazed- he said he sees very few patients with cholesterol in the <4 mark, let alone the <3 mark. Said 2.6 total is the lowest he’s seen in years. Is this something I should be concerned about? If it’s useful, the breakdown was HDL 1.09 mmol/L, Trig 0.40 mmol/L and LDL 1.3 mmol/L.
[quote]ShutUpAndSquat wrote:
I was wondering if anyone could help me- I’ve just had a blood test and, apologies for the UK scales, but it showed my total cholesterol to be just 2.6 mmol/L (5.0 mmol/L is recommended upper limit in UK).
The Doc was quite amazed- he said he sees very few patients with cholesterol in the <4 mark, let alone the <3 mark. Said 2.6 total is the lowest he’s seen in years. Is this something I should be concerned about? If it’s useful, the breakdown was HDL 1.09 mmol/L, Trig 0.40 mmol/L and LDL 1.3 mmol/L.[/quote]
Are you sure about these numbers? Converting mmol/L to mg/dl still leaves the UK guidelines for TC at < 100 mg/dl. You sure it isn’t 10? All these numbers look very, very odd…even the “reference ranges”.[/quote]
I would check your calculations. We use the same reference range and units here in Australia.
I got the upper limit of TC just under 200 mg/dl when converted