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THE MIRACLE OF CHITOSAN: A SIMPLE WAY TO VIEW TOTAL CHOLESTEROL AND HDL
11 March 2009
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Generally speaking you want your total cholesterol (TC) to be 150 or less—ideally, it should be 100 plus your age. Your HDL should be 50 or more. But don’t despair if your cholesterol rises or your HDL drops, for a more important measure is the ratio between the two.
Divide your TC by your HDL to get what we call the Coronary Artery Disease Risk Factor 1, known as CADRF1 for short. (If, for example, your TC is 150 and your HDL is 50, your CADRF1 is 3.0.)
The lower, the result, the better.
Men have an average risk of a heart attack when their CADRF1 is 4.97. That risk drops to one-half of average when the CADRF1 falls to 3.43, and continues falling as your ratio drops. But beware of an elevated CADRF1, for the risk of suffering a heart attack becomes double the average when the CADRF1 rises to 9.55.
For women, a CADRF1 of 4.44 represents an average risk of having a heart attack. The risk is cut in half when the CADRF1 falls to 3.27
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