What cholesterol ratios should you be looking for?

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.

Da Luz, Protasio Lemos et al. “High Ratio of Triglyceride
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2664115/

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http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article...

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
https://www.hindawi.com/journals/cholesterol/2012/794252/

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