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What is the difference between cholesterol and total cholesterol results?
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See below: The total cholesterol is made up of 3 parts; triglycerides, LDL (bad) cholesterol and HDL (good) cholesterol. The exact formula is total cholesterol equals HDL + LDL + (triglycerides / 5).
Answered 6/17/2014
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