Blood Triglyceride and Sugar Fasting Levels: Current Guidelines
Please note that this website is not intended for “most people”. It is written for those who want to stand out in self-health care. If you are such a person, we strongly advise that you give serious thought to all of the suggestions about how to improve you blood lipid profile, triglycerides in particular. If you are tempted to think the suggestions are too complicated or too simplistic, or even biased, we assure you they are not. In May, 2001, the U.S. National Cholesterol Education Program (NCEP), a division of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), released recommendations on who should be treated for elevated triglyceride levels. The NCEP recommendations ("consensus statements") are the products of independent, non-Federal panels of experts and are based on the panels' assessments of medical knowledge available at the time the statements were made. Therefore, they provide "snapshots in time" of the state of knowledge of the topics (new knowledge, however, is inevitably accumulating through medical research). It should be noted, however, that the usually quoted "normal" blood lipid levels do change as they depend upon the levels found in the majority of the population as well as upon what... health officials decide is normal. Therefore, the declared "normal" triglyceride levels -- that your doctor will use to tell you whether your various serum/blood levels are "normal" -- do NOT necessarily mean "healthy" levels. Here is the American Cholesterol Education Program Expert Panel’s current policy on fasting blood triglyceride levels in adults:
Triglyceride Levels: "Normal" Versus "Healthy" Keep in mind these recommendations are only guidelines. The ranges were developed based on the entire population and may not apply to individuals. It should also be noted that the usually quoted "normal" blood lipid levels do change as they depend:
Therefore, the declared "normal" triglyceride levels -- that your doctor will use to tell you whether your various serum/blood levels are "normal" -- do NOT necessarily mean "healthy" levels. PLEASE NOTE: Fasting values should be based on two serial measurements of serum (blood) triglycerides. Serial measurements are important because of intraindividual triglyceride variability which is 5 times that of cholesterol. "Optimal" Blood Triglyceride Levels
Although medical establishments consider blood triglyceride levels of 10 - 150 mg/dL, or 0.1 - 1.7 mmol/L normal, or good, according to many experts, desirable or favorable fasting blood triglyceride levels should be 50 - 150 milligrams per deciliter (mg/dL), or 0.6 - 1.7 millimoles per liter (mmol/L) of blood. "Normal", however, does NOT necessarily mean "healthy" as it may include both healthy and many unhealthy people. We want "healthy", not just "normal" serum triglyceride (and other lipid) levels. Therefore, in order to avoid future cardiovascular health problems, the "ideal" or beneficial (healthy) range of trigycerides should be much tighter than the often quoted "normal" triglyceride range referred to by your doctor, that is below 150 mg/dL, or 1.7 mmol/L. This is important as elevations of the blood triglycerides, particularly in association with decreased HDL-"good" cholesterol, outside this range are the key marker for heart disease and stroke.
For each mmol/L increase in triglycerides - which translates into 88.5 mg/dL - the risk of coronary artery disease (CAD) increases by 37 percent in women and 14 percent in men. All else being equal, a man with a triglyceride level of 300 mg/dL, or 3.4 mmol/L would have a risk of cardiovascular events roughly 28 percent higher than that of an otherwise comparable man who has a level of 100 mg/dL, or 1.1 mmol/L (a meta-analysis by John Hokanson and Melissa Austin, 1996). Therefore, for every percentage your triglyceride level drops, so can your chance of heart disease or stroke. Standard Fasting Lipid/Lipoprotein Profile In assessing the risk of heart disease, standard medicine targets mainly total blood cholesterol levels and LDL-"bad" cholesterol. However, people with high cholesterol often have high triglycerides, especially when there is no another disorder present. Therefore, the type of standard, conventional medical treatment used to lower cholesterol
Please enter the Triglyceride level in the spaces provided below and then click the "Calculate" button to convert. Use the "tab" key to move from cell to cell for faster input.
Please treat the results with due care and consideration.
American blood laboratories use a different version of the metric system than does most of the rest of the world, which uses the Système International d'Unités (SI units). The SI is a standard recognized around the world – except by the United States of America, Liberia, and Myanmar (Burma) who will probably adopt it in due time. In some cases translation between the two systems is easy, but the difference between the two is most pronounced in the measurement of chemical concentration.
The term "mg/dL" then is the abbreviation for milligrams (mg) per deciliter (dL) and describes how much lipid is present in a specific amount of blood. Greek and Latin words form the prefixes for the units on most lab tests. A milligram is a thousandth (1/1000) of a gram (a gram is about the weight of a paper clip). A deciliter is one tenth (1/10) of a liter (a liter being just over a quart) or about 1/4 of a pint.
The SI System: mmol/L The term "mmol/L" is the abbreviation for millimoles (mmol) per liter/litre (L) and describes how much lipid is present in a specific amount of blood. A millimole is 1/1,000 of a mole. A mole is an amount of a substance (in this case, triglyceride or cholesterol) that contains a certain number of molecules or atoms. Since mass per mole varies with the molecular weight of the substance being analyzed, conversion between the American and SI units requires many different conversion factors.
Triglycerides Conversion:
Cholesterol Conversion:
Conversion Simplified To convert your cholesterol into Floridian, simply multiply the value by 39. For example, if your cholesterol comes in at 5.2 mmol/L, multiplying this by 39 yields a value 202 mg/dL. The same conversion factor of 39 applies to HDL and LDL values. However, your triglyceride values must be multiplied by 89. Armed with these simple conversion factors you can impress your American neighbours with your bilingual knowledge of lab values, and then exchange stories of how to amazingly improve the numbers without actually following your doctor’s advice (read: without the need for risky drugs).
As you know concentrations can be described by weight (in grams) or by molecular count (in moles). In both cases, the unit is usually modified by milli- or micro- or other prefix, and is always "per" some volume, often a liter. This means that the conversion factor depends on the molecular weight of the substance in question.
Many glucometers now have a switch that allows you to change between units. Sometimes it's a physical switch, and sometimes it's an option that you can set. To convert mmol/L of glucose to mg/dL, multiply by 18. To convert mg/dL of glucose to mmol/L, divide by 18 or multiply by 0.055. These factors are specific for glucose, because they depend on the mass of one molecule (the molecular weight). For other substances like triglycerides and cholesterol, the conversion factors are different (see above). If you are a diabetic wishing to converse in American sugar lingo, the conversion is 18 or 0.055. For example, a blood sugar reading of 7.5 mmol/L
PLEASE NOTE: Reflectance glucometers have a some error margin due to both intrinsic limitations and environmental factors, and that plasma readings are 15 percent higher than whole blood (currently, most meters are calibrated to give plasma readings, thus matching lab readings), and that capillary blood is different from venous blood when it's changing, as after a meal. So round off to make values easier to comprehend and don't sweat the hundredths place. For example, 4.3 mmol/l converts to 77.4 mg/dL but should probably be quoted as 75 mg/dL or even 80 mg/dL. Similarly, 150 mg/dL converts to 8.3333... mmol/L but 8.3 is a reasonable quote, and even just 8 would usually convey the meaning. We usually talk in approximations anyway.
Blood Sugar Levels You are considered pre-diabetic, if your fasting blood sugar level is between 100 and 125 mg/dL, or 5.55 and 6.87 mmol/L). Some clinics, however, as a biomarker of coronary heart disease risk, use a fasting blood sugar of 90 mg/dL (5 mmol/L) or higher. Current medical standards state that diabetes is formally diagnosed at fasting blood sugar level of 126 mg/dL, or 6.93 mmol/L.
Blood Insulin Levels Although most physicians use fasting insulin levels of over 15 uU/ml to diagnose type 2 diabetes or insulin resistance, any fasting insulin level over 10 uU/ml is a major problem and is a serious risk factor for diabetes.
Please enter the Blood Sugar level in the space provided below, choose the Units ("From.. To...") and then click the "Convert". This conversion is for information purposes only.
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