Patient's question:
What to check for high blood lipid levelsDoctor's answer:
Hyperlipidemia is a systemic disease that refers to excessively high total cholesterol (TC) and/or triglycerides (TG) in the blood or abnormally low high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C). Modern medicine calls it dyslipidemia. The main examination is lipid testing, which generally involves measuring the full lipid profile, such as fasting TC. It determines the presence of numerous chylomicrons in the plasma, detects the concentration of low-density lipoprotein in the plasma, and measures the content of free fatty acids and phospholipids.