Regardless of the unit of measure this is a 10 percent reduction. I'll
bet the doc does not know that the measurement of cholesterol is so
imprecise that this amount of change can't be reliably measured. The
same lab measuring different vials of blood taken from the same blood
sample can report values that differ by up to 15%.
Different lab, different day, different time? Your guess.
Chuck Norcutt
Ralf Loi wrote:
> Chris Barker wrote:
>
> Well I have been advised, politely, by my
> doc to lose around 7kg (15.43lb according to my Mac calculator,
> referring to pounds as "US pounds" for some reason) and to go down
> from 5.8 total cholestorol to less than 5.2 using exercise*.
>
> And Fernando Gonzales replied:
>
> Funny thing, here in Uruguay we consider Total Cholesterol (CT) to be
> normal
> within 120 to 240 mg/dl (miligrams = 1/1000 g. - deciliter = 1/10 l.)
>
> I suspect some strange method of measure, for example
> milli-ounces/gallon...
> remember, there was a space satellite going wrong because ESA used cm and
> NASA inches...
>
> Ralf Loi
>
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