Sunday, April 11, 2010

The Friedewald and Iranian equations: Fasting triglycerides can seriously distort calculated LDL

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8 comments:

  1. Hello Ned,

    Had you thought of getting hold of enough data to construct a Kock 2nd order regression ?

    Like your "not Fooled by Randomness" approach.

    LeonRover

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  2. Hi Leon.

    First I would have to find some time to breathe, as I am up to my ears with work these days. I don't even know how I can find time to blog.

    But if I could, in the future, I would love to work on something like a nonlinear regression model in collaboration with medical researchers. Software to do the analyses already exists: warppls.com.

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  3. awesome. thanks.

    I've been wonder, why they don't use at least at least use 2nd order fit. or some other parametric fit of other basis. it's not that hard & one page Matlab script can do it. (FYI i'm a physicist)

    but i guess it is beyond most MDs ability as most of them are rather poor at math. XD

    yes, please could you find a better fit?

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  4. sorry. i am trying to get follow-up emails. & could not do it without leaving another (useless) comment.

    regards,

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  5. Hi Gee.

    Still, it seems that the Iranian eq., as is and at least for those with low trigs, yields reasonably reliable LDL-C figures.

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  8. My total cholesterol is 235.
    HDL is 75.
    Triglycerides are 56.

    Would this Iranian equation be a better indicator for me?

    Thank you.

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