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Do I Have High APO-B Cholesterol?
On the standard lipid panel, which you get from your doctor, there are three numbers that should cause you concern of their high. One is triglyceride number if it's high, the LDL cholesterol if it'shigh, and the non-HDL cholesterol if those three are high. Most people have these gray zone total cholesterol, LDL cholesterol, non-HDl. So is APO-B really high or not? Although they usually correlate, sometimes they don't. And that's when you need to rely on the particle number.