It's this ratio between cholesterol that's most important for the development of cardiovascular disease, rather than
simply total cholesterol levels.
Not exact matches
And when we eat foods that are rich in
cholesterol the liver
simply starts producing less of it, so the
total amount of
cholesterol in the body changes very little, depending on our diet.
However, either option appears to be a better risk predictor than your
total cholesterol level or
simply your LDL level.
Recently I dropped my
total cholesterol by 27 %, my LDL by 37 % and my CRP by 54 % — in TWO months,
simply by going vegan.
One could
simply subtract the HDL from the
total cholesterol and the result would be the LDL (since the other
cholesterol type constituents are insignificant).