Question

Should we worry about high triglycerides in sugar?

Answer 1

These blood fats can be one of the signs of metabolic syndrome, which increases the risk for having a heart attack or stroke.

Doctors are seeing lots of hungry patients these days, and it's not because people don't have enough to eat.

Before their appointments, patients are fasting for 9–12 hours because that's the only way to get an accurate lipid profile, the blood test that generates measurements of total cholesterol, "good" HDL cholesterol, and triglycerides. Lipid profiles have become increasingly popular because of the emphasis on lowering "bad" LDL cholesterol, and your LDL level can be calculated from a lipid profile.

Doctors have a good handle on HDL. High concentrations are better than low ones. An HDL of 60 mg/dL or above may afford some protection against heart disease. Levels of 40 and below (50 for women, because their HDL levels tend to run a little higher, on average) put you at risk.

But triglycerides are a bit more problematic. Although there's no question that extremely high levels (1,000 mg/dL or more) spell trouble and can lead to acute pancreatitis, it's been less certain how hard doctors and patients should work to reduce triglycerides when they are at lower levels, but still above normal.

The message from officialdom has been mixed. The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force says there's insufficient evidence to recommend routine triglyceride screening. In 2001, an expert panel convened by the federal government's National Cholesterol Education Program released the program's third set of guidelines. On one hand, they described elevated triglycerides as simply being a marker for other risk factors. Yet the panel also said they should be given "increased weight" in cholesterol management and set cutoffs for normal, borderline, high, and very high levels

Answer 2

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Yes. Current research reveals elevated triglycerides may contribute to hardening the artery wall, which increases risk for stroke, heart attack, and heart disease. Often, high triglycerides are a sign of other conditions such as obesity, poorly controlled diabetes, low thyroid hormones, and liver or kidney disease.

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