A cholesterol test generally determines 4 distinct numbers: Total cholesterol, LDL, HDL, and triglycerides. Cholesterol being fat, it is not soluble in water. So it cannot circulate freely in the blood. But, the fact is that nature has devised a way to make water-soluble cholesterol, and tr...
BLOOD sugarBackground: Diabetes is now a serious health concern, and the import of medications from other countries consumes a significant amount of foreign cash each year. The effects of Raphanus satives (Radish) in the treatment of diabetes mellitus were evaluated scientifically ...
triglyceride-based, oil-in-water emulsions are the only established vehicles for safely providing adequate amounts of non-polar, medium- and long-chain FAs intravenously, since it can be desirable for all such infusions to be miscible with blood upon injection, given its polar (water-soluble...
Note: results are inaccurate in the presence of kidney disease. 6. Jacobsen says the common Serum B-12 test is not an accurate measure because of the way B-12 binds to proteins in the blood. It can say you're level is normal, when it is not. 7. A newer B-12 test, the Holo...
An abbreviated fat tolerance test was utilized for both visits where fasting triglycerides were measured (more details below), a high-fat meal was consumed (either scaled to weight or a standardized bolus), and then triglycerides were measured again 4 h post high-fat meal. Between blood draws,...
Triglycerides are a type of fat (or lipid) that exist in the blood and provide energy for the body. When you eat, your body converts any calories it doesn't need right away into triglycerides and stores them in your fat cells for later use.[1] Research is only really just beginning ...
approximately 120 days for red blood cells; approximately 10 days for platelets; and approximately 6 hours for white blood cells. In the case of white blood cells, once they are released from the bone marrow or lymphoid tissues, the short time in the circulation reflects the fact that they ...