Question

A cholesterol screening finds that a person's blood serum has 38 mg/dL HDL and 190 mg/dL LDL a. Are these values within the normal range? o Yes No b. How many grams of HDL are present in 3.0 mL of the serum? the tolerance is +/-29% c. How many micrograms of LDL are present in 2.5 x 10-4 L of the serum? the tolerance is +/-2%

Answer 1

a) NO,these given values are not in normal range.

The normal range of HDL is less than 40mg/dL and of LDL is less than 100mg/dL.

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e) Total Cholesterol cannot be calculated by adding HDL and LDL only because the cholesterol is consist of HDL,LDL and triglycerides. Hence, the second option is correct, i.e NO,because HDL and LDL are not only lipoprotein that transport cholesterol.

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