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LDL cholesterol

Your laboratory may print this as LDL, LDL-C. Usually reported in mg/dL.

On your report

NameLDL cholesterol
Also printed asLDL · LDL-C
Usual unitmg/dL
Reference rangePrinted by your own laboratory. We publish none of our own.

Comparing two results

A change under about 20.5% may be nothing at all

LDL cholesterol varies within the same healthy person from day to day — for this value, by about 7.4%. So two results can differ without anything having changed. Below roughly 20.5%, a difference is as likely to be ordinary variation as anything else.

This figure is a lower bound, deliberately. The full calculation also includes the variation of the specific machine that ran your sample, which belongs to your laboratory and differs between them. Leaving it out makes the threshold smaller, so this flags changes that may turn out to be nothing — rather than missing ones that matter.

Biological variation figure from the EFLM BVD meta-analysis. Calculated as 2.77 × CVI.

What MedicaCare AI does with this value

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Usually printed alongside it

Total cholesterolHDL cholesterolTriglycerides