How is LDL/HDL Ratio Calculated?
The LDL/HDL Ratio is calculated by dividing the HDL cholesterol in to LDL cholesterol. Considering the above stated example- if a person has HDL cholesterol of 60 mg/dL and LDL cholesterol of 180 mg/dL, the LDL/HDL ratio turns out to be 3:1. If a person has an LDL/HDL ratio lesser than 3.5:1, he is said to have a healthy level. However, the ideal HDL/LDL ratio is 2.5:1. Therefore, the doctors advise the patients to maintain at least an LDL/HDL ratio less than 3.5:1. Thus, you may conclude that the HDL/LDL ratio and LDL/HDL are nothing but just two ways of judging your cholesterol levels by keeping one of the two as the base. Apart from these two cholesterol ratios, the other ratios mentioned in your cholesterol test report are Total/HDL ratio and Triglycerides/HDL ratio. All these ratios are various ways to present the test results and understand them on various bases. However, the fact can not be denied that there is a huge controversy over the use of these ratios in diagnosing the ri
