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by nlitened 997 days ago
I was also sad to know that when you do a “normal” cholesterol blood test, your LDL is not measured, but calculated according to formula:

LDL = TC – (HDL + TG/5)

It’s not even a real measured amount, it’s a very rough middle-school-level formula, but people freak out about fluctuations of this number.