Puzzled about Cholesterol numbers

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I'm really baffled. Had a fasting cholesterol screening during a wellness program at work yesterday. As background, I'm female in the late 50's, 5'8" and 125 lb.

These were my numbers:
HDL = 100
TC/HDL ration = 2.43
LDL - it only shows that I'm below 100
Triglyceride = 128
TC = 243!!!!

How can all my other numbers be good, but TC is 243!!!

I can't find my screening from 2 years ago, and it's been a long time since I had a full work up. But I've never been over 200 on TC.

What's going on?
 
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I'm really baffled. Had a fasting cholesterol screening during a wellness program at work yesterday. As background, I'm female in the late 50's, 5'8" and 125 lb.

These were my numbers:
HDL = 100
TC/HDL ration = 2.43
LDL - it only shows that I'm below 100
Triglyceride = 128
TC = 243!!!!

How can all my other numbers be good, but TC is 243!!!

I can't find my screening from 2 years ago, and it's been a long time since I had a full work up. But I've never been over 200 on TC.

What's going on?
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I am not a doctor - hopefully one can provide some insight. That said, my understanding has been that TC = HDL + LDL + tri./5, so you should be able to get LDL using this formlua:

LDL = TC - HDL - tri./5

So, assuming I did the math correctly, that formula yields an LDL of around 117. Not sure why your LDL is allegedly under 100.
 
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