From: Damien Broderick (damien@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Mon Feb 02 1998 - 05:35:41 MST
At 04:07 AM 2/1/98 EST, Curt wrote:
>I eat meat, and my cholesterol level is 135.
Could you explain what metric this is? I was aghast a few months ago to
find that both my blood pressure and cholesterol levels were dangerously
high (I'm a skinny coot who gets around by bicycle and foot). Cutting out
full-cream milk/cheese and butter and avocados (sob) and the like, and
walking fairly briskly for a few klicks most days, have enabled me to get
both parameters down by about a third. But here in Oz we measure high
density lioproteins separately from the dangerous low density lps, that
ideally (I gather) ought to be about 3.5, and invoke a magic ratio between
the two. My LDL is currently 6.3 [somethings] (was 8.9, 12 weeks back)
with a ratio of 4.8. How does this map onto the US measure?
Damien
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