Reasons for cholesterol and triglyceride examination:
Routine examination in screening for dyslipidemia.
Check the patient's reaction to drugs for dyslipidemia.
Help check the risk of heart disease or blood flow problems, including heart attacks and strokes.
If there are abnormal symptoms, such as yellow fat deposits on the skin, it may be due to a rare genetic disease, which may be caused by extremely high cholesterol levels.
Normal range of total cholesterol:
Adult cholesterol is 2.86 ~ 5.98 mmol/L (110 ~ 230 mg/dl).
Children's cholesterol is 3.12 ~ 5.20mmol/l (120 ~ 200mg/dl).
Triglyceride levels are divided into four levels:
Normal level, less than 2.3 mmol/L.
Critical high level, 2.3 ~ 4.5 mmol/L.
High level, 45 ~11.3 mmol/L.
Very high level, exceeding11.3 mmol/L.
reference data
Luo Hemin. Reduce cholesterol and glyceride. Liaoning: Liaoning Science and Technology Press, 2009.