de Cordova and de Cordova et al reported a simple equation for estimated LDL-cholesterol. The authors are from Universidade de Blumenau-FURB in Sao Paula and Laboratorio de Analises Clinicas Santa Isabel in Floriano Piexoto in Brazil.
Parameters:
(1) serum total cholesterol in mmol/L
(2) serum HDL cholesterol in mmol/L
estimated serum LDL-cholesterol in mmol/L =
= 0.7516 * ((total cholesterol) - (HDL cholesterol))
Performance:
• The estimate has an r = 0.93 vs 0.87 for the Friedewald formula.
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Specialty: Endocrinology
