Triglycerides
Reads: Triglycerides
You want them low: lower triglycerides mean a lighter load on the cardiovascular system.
What this marker reads
Circulating fat in transit. More responsive to carbohydrate load and alcohol than to dietary fat — a counterintuitive fact that makes this a sharper dietary readout than cholesterol.
What a named body publishes
Each line below is the sentence the issuing body wrote, carried with its own identifier. Nothing here interprets your result — it states what was published, for whom, and by whom.
Triglycerides
“The Endocrine Society classifies a fasting triglyceride level below 150 mg/dl as normal, and states the 'Classification of serum triglyceride levels greater than 150 mg/dl (1.7 mmol/liter) as elevated.'”
Evaluation and Treatment of Hypertriglyceridemia: An Endocrine Society Clinical Practice Guideline · The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism · 2012 DOI 10.1210/jc.2011-3213 · PMID 22962670
“Same normal cut-point expressed in the SI units the guideline itself gives alongside the conventional units: normal fasting triglyceride is below 1.7 mmol/liter.”
Evaluation and Treatment of Hypertriglyceridemia: An Endocrine Society Clinical Practice Guideline · The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism · 2012 DOI 10.1210/jc.2011-3213 · PMID 22962670
Your laboratory reads your result against its own assay, and this page does not do that for it. What is above is what a named body published and for whom; the machinery this marker reads is set out on its pathway page, and the formulas witnessed on it are below.
The machinery behind it
What raises this marker and what it goes on to move — each edge carried with its own study — is set out in full on its pathway page: Triglycerides (pathway) →
Formulas that modulate it
Each formula page names this pathway and carries the study behind its claim.
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