Saturday, September 26, 2020

On Lipid Profile - Trigylcerides, VLDL, LDL, HDL

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.


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