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What does lipoprotein electrophoresis test show? i had one, and now my doctor can not explain it, and never references it, always looking at lipids

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Electrophoresis: Lipoprotein electrophoresis is another way to measure the fats or lipids in your blood. It gives a more detailed evaluation than the more common blood tests. Instead of breading the lipids down into cholesterol, triglycerides, HDL and LDL. It breaks the lipids down to multiple particles and in individuals with abnormal lipids or a bad family history it provides more information.

Answered 11/7/2014

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Dr. Milton Alvis, jr answered

Specializes in Preventive Medicine

SeperatesLipoprotein: particles by charge & size. Lipoproteins (complex protein particles which transport all fat molecules around body in the water outside cells) have always been the correct issue for artery disease, not any one fat, eg. cholesterol or triglycerides, which is being carried. The higher the LDL-particle concentrations, the more arterial disease progresses; the higher the Large-HDL-particles, the slower

Answered 4/10/2015

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