Your triglyceride and HDL levels predict whether your LDL particles are large and fluffy or small and dense. Small, dense particles stick to artery walls and raise heart disease risk. Most doctors don't check this pattern, missing a key way to assess your actual risk.
Uh, if your triglycerides are low and your HDL is high, then your LDL is likely large and it's, it's the light and floaty, not the dense sticky kind, um, that causes buildup. Um, and that's less dangerous. So, but if your triglycerides, for example, are high, so you got high triglycerides, then you got low HDL numbers, then your LDL is likely small, it's likely dense and sticky, and that's the kind that builds up in the arteries. Okay, so there's a difference, right? So one pattern shows that this is actually a good pattern, the other one shows a bad pattern. Now the problem with that is that a lot of doctors are not, uh, looking at patterns, okay?
