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Lisa Nelson, RD, LN

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posted 09/10/2008, comment (1)

Your Checklist to Lower Cholesterol

Here's a checklist of the top steps you must take if you want to successfully lower your cholesterol and keep it low. Know your numbers Have you had a lipid profile? Do you understand the numbers? If you are going to successfully lower cholesterol you need to know your numbers and what they mean. The most... Read more Chevron

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posted 09/07/2008, comments (10)

Making Sense of Cholesterol Ratios, Lipid Profiles and Your Heart Disease Risk Scores

It's very possible your MD orders lab work and you have no idea what or why you're having blood drawn. Well, let's clear up the confusion when it comes to your cholesterol labs. The terms "lipid panel", "lipid profile", and "lipoprotein profile" are used interchangeably to order the same set of labs. To make reading this easier, I'm... Read more Chevron

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posted 07/09/2008, comments (9)

Triglycerides: Why They Matter and How to Lower Them

I've recently answered several questions related to triglycerides. These questions range from "What are triglycerides?" to "My triglycerides are 400, do I need to worry?" on to "Help, my triglycerides are 1200, how do I fix this?" So, I'm going to answer all these questions here for those of you who are wondering, but haven't... Read more Chevron

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posted 05/15/2008, comment (1)

how to interpret the value of the cholesterol level?

I am hoping if someone can help me with these questions. We are having trouble understanding these numbers. One is this. My friend has taken cholesterol level checked without fasting and the value was 278mg/dl. Trigryceride was also higer than referenced value. I forgot the number. She ate 2 slices of... Read more Chevron

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posted 04/25/2008, comments (3)

Omacar, meet Lovaza

In August 2007, I wrote a series of articles about high triglycerides and heart disease. In summary, high triglycerides moderately increase your risk of heart disease. A normal level is <150mg/dl and a high level is >200mg/dl. Certain conditions such as obesity, low thyroid levels, and certain medications... Read more Chevron

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