Test category · Laboratory
Lipid & cardiometabolic
Cholesterol, triglycerides and the lipoproteins that carry them, with the newer markers used to refine cardiovascular risk.
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Canonical test concepts of this category that do not yet have their own page. They are listed so that the taxonomy is complete and searchable; a page is written only when it can meet the quality standard.
- Total cholesterol · also: cholesterol Laboratory test
- LDL cholesterol (LDL-C) · also: low-density lipoprotein cholesterol Laboratory test
- Direct LDL cholesterol Laboratory test
- Calculated LDL cholesterol · also: Friedewald LDL Laboratory test
- HDL cholesterol (HDL-C) · also: high-density lipoprotein cholesterol Laboratory test
- Triglycerides (TG) Laboratory test
- Non-HDL cholesterol Laboratory test
- VLDL cholesterol (VLDL) Laboratory test
- Apolipoprotein B (ApoB) Laboratory test
- Apolipoprotein A1 (ApoA1) Laboratory test
- Lipoprotein(a) (Lp(a)) Laboratory test
- Lipoprotein particle testing · also: NMR lipoprotein profile Laboratory test
- Homocysteine Laboratory test
- Fasting insulin Laboratory test
- Insulin-resistance calculation · also: HOMA-IR Screening tool
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