How Triglycerides Affect Your Health. About triglycerides Triglyceride levels High triglyceride levels Treatment Lifestyle changes Low triglyceride levels When to see a doctor Takeaway Triglycerides are the most common form of fat in the body. What are triglycerides? What are normal or high triglyceride levels?
What are the causes and risks of high triglyceride levels? Controlling high triglycerides: Lifestyle changes. Are low triglyceride levels a cause for concern? When should you see a doctor?
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Please try again. Something went wrong on our side, please try again. Show references High blood triglycerides. National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. Accessed Aug. Bonow RO, et al. Risk markers and the primary prevention of cardiovascular disease.
Philadelphia, Pa. Accessed May 30, Kumar P, et al. Lipid and metabolic disorders. In: Kumar and Clark's Clinical Medicine. A triglycerides test is usually part of a lipid profile. Lipid is another word for fat. A lipid profile is a test that measures the level of fats in your blood, including triglycerides and cholesterol , a waxy, fatty substance found in every cell of your body. If you have high levels of both LDL bad cholesterol and triglycerides, you may be at an increased risk for a heart attack or stroke.
Your health care provider may order a lipid profile as part of a routine exam or to diagnose or monitor heart conditions. Healthy adults should get a lipid profile, which includes a triglycerides test, every four to six years.
You may need to be tested more often if you have certain risk factors for heart disease. These include:. A triglycerides test is a blood test.
During the test, a health care professional will take a blood sample from a vein in your arm, using a small needle. After the needle is inserted, a small amount of blood will be collected into a test tube or vial. You may feel a little sting when the needle goes in or out. This usually takes less than five minutes. The triglyceride test measures the triglycerides carried in chylomicrons and VLDL cholesterol. National guidelines in the UK no longer recommend a fasting blood test where you fast for a period of time before your blood test.
If your doctor has asked you to fast for a test usually for hours then your triglyceride level should be below 1. This "fasting test" number is lower because only the triglycerides made by the liver and carried in the VLDL cholesterol will be measured — not the triglycerides you get from food. As you have not eaten, there will be no chylomicrons present in your blood.
Triglycerides can be raised due to what doctors refer to as 'primary' and 'secondary' causes, explained below. Some people have a combination of both. It is very important that your doctors investigates all these potential causes so that you can start treatment. People with high triglyceride levels often have low HDL cholesterol good cholesterol as well.
This is an unhealthy combination of blood fats that's often linked with premature heart disease. People with Type 2 diabetes usually have high LDL cholesterol bad cholesterol as well.
This type of cholesterol is 'atherogenic', meaning it clogs up the arteries, leading to heart attacks and strokes. As with many conditions that raise blood fats, diet and lifestyle changes are the cornerstones of treatment.
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