Wed, Apr-22-15, 08:14
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Posts: 54
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Plan: DANDR
Stats: 185/143/130
BF:
Progress: 76%
Location: central illinois
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Janet,
I suspect that my HDL is lower (at least in part) due to a fairly drastic reduction in my physical activity since the fall cholesterol check, and my puposefully cutting back drastically on my hormone replacement medication. Of course I plan to change all that in terms of exercise now. I found your links very interesting, and although I am tempted to have my lipid breakdown run, I may just be opening a can of worms there.
On another note, perhaps you can explain to me what occurs in the minds of healthcare professionals when they monitor "healthy" patients for the presence of insulin resistance. For example, where I work, I see many fasting glucose numbers between 101 and 110, (with repeat blood work showing the same numbers over a few years time) but the Hbg AIC almost never indicates full blown diabetes (>6.6). It seems from what I read that the triglyceride/HDl ratio may be a good surrogate for insulin resistence, but the general medical community does not appear to "get that" in real life where I am from, nor do they seem to worry much about a little bump in fasting glucose numbers over the years.
So many of these folks that have elevated fasting glucose numberes also have abnormal liver labs and are diagnosed with "fatty liver". I guess I am just preaching to the choir here, but there is no real "test" for insulin resistence, correct?
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