What should you be looking for? Your triglyceride to HDL ratio is what you should be looking at as it indicates the presence of small dense, glycated & oxidised LDL - your ACTUAL risk factor.
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Karen Olson, Bryan Hendricks, and David K. Murdock, “The Triglyceride to HDL Ratio and Its Relationship to Insulin Resistance in Pre- and Postpubertal Children: Observation from the Wausau SCHOOL Project,” Cholesterol, vol. 2012, Article ID 794252, 4 pages, 2012. doi:10.1155/2012/794252
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