You decide to see your physician for a medical evaluation. S…
You decide to see your physician for a medical evaluation. She draws a blood sample for a blood lipid profile. She informs you that you’re at high risk of developing atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease because you smoke cigarettes, have poorly-managed type 2 diabetes, and have a parent who suffered a heart attack. When the lab delivers your blood lipid results, you learn that your total cholesterol is 191 mg/dL and your HDL cholesterol is 35 mg/dL. Your total cholesterol to HDL cholesterol ratio (Tc:HDLc) is ideal. True or False?
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The fatty acids on the glycerol backbone of triglycerides can vary both in their carbon chain length and in the number of double bonds between the carbon atoms. If a fatty acid possesses a total of one double bond between its carbon atoms, we refer to the fatty acid as being which type?
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Diabetes mellitus is diagnosed when fasting plasma glucose is ≥126 mg/dL, when an oral glucose tolerance test is performed and plasma glucose is ≥200 mg/dL when evaluated 2 hours after consuming 75 grams of glucose syrup, and/or when HbA1c is ≥6.5%.
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