If you
are already working, you might have heard of the required examination conducted
every year. Annual physical examination in any company would consist of a full
medical examination by a physician and basic laboratory requests such as
Chest-Xray, Urinalysis, Fecalysis, and a Complete Blood Count (CBC). If you are
on the older adult age, the doctor may request for a lipid profile. Basically,
if you are given a lipid profile you have to fast for at least 8-12 hours
depending on the hospital/clinic protocol.
In the lipid profile, one might encounter the terms
Triglycerides, VLDL, LDL, HDL, and many more. I will try to explain what these
are from what I learned recently:
When the body cannot store any more carbohydrates
specifically the liver, the liver converts these excess carbohydrates as
triglycerides. Triglycerides are lipids or fats. If they get out of the liver,
they roam around in the blood in the form of what is now called very low-density
lipoprotein (VLDL), which will then form into low density lipoprotein (LDL). High
density lipoprotein (HDL) is what they call the good cholesterol.
