{"id":3920,"date":"2011-04-20T16:29:17","date_gmt":"2011-04-20T16:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=3920"},"modified":"2011-04-20T16:29:17","modified_gmt":"2011-04-20T16:29:17","slug":"are-my-cholesterol-levels-ok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/3920","title":{"rendered":"Are my cholesterol levels ok?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you for your question.<\/p>\n<p>To enable me to give you a more specific answer it would help if you clarified where the decimal point was in the results. For example, is your total cholesterol 1.65 or 16.5? This way I can give you a more accurate response as the different results mean very different things.<\/p>\n<p>To view the desirable levels of cholesterol to reach and what to take to lower levels that are too high then please follow this <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/side\/cholesterol-and-triglycerides\">link<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi,<\/p>\n<p>I am taking tenofovir, 3TC and efavirenz.<\/p>\n<p>I see changes on my lipid lab results every time I have one.<\/p>\n<p>My recent result was, total cholesterol-165, HDL-31, LDL-72,and triglyceride 330. How do interpret this result? What should I do to lower the cholesterol and triglyceride level and boost the HDL?<\/p>\n<p>Thanks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,30,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-other-tests","category-side-effects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}