OBJECTIVE To compare direct measurement of LDL-cholesterol (LDL-C) determined by a homogeneous method with LDL-cholesterol estimation determined by the Friedewald formula in a large heterogeneous population. METHODS The measurements of total cholesterol (TC) and triglycerides (TG) were performed using traditional enzymatic methods. The measurements of HDL-C and LDL-C were performed using dire...

OBJECTIVE Serum low density lipoprotein (LDL) level is an important biomarker for coronary artery disease (CAD). As direct LDL measurement is expensive and not cost effective, especially in a large population, it is estimated by Friedewald formula. Therefore, we decided to compare the direct LDL measurement method with LDL measured by Friedewald formula in a large general population for the fir...

abstract          background and objectives: concentration low-density lipoprotein (ldl) is one of the strongest indicators of atherosclerosis and predicts the diagnosis of cardiovascular diseases. ldl measurement accuracy is very important. ldl can be measured directly, such as enzymatic and nephelometry methods or can be calculated using friedewald's formula. despite the development of e...

BACKGROUND Due to limitations of the Friedewald formula, alternative methods for calculating low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) were suggested. We evaluated utility of these methods. METHODS Ninety three subjects free of coronary heart disease were considered. LDL-C was measured by the homogeneous method, and calculated by the Friedewald formula LDL-C = TC-HDL-(TG/2.2) (LDL1) and alt...

We evaluated three precipitation methods for determination of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol in serum and an indirect method involving the Friedewald formula (Clin Chem 18: 499-502, 1972) by comparison with results by ultracentrifugation. The results of all methods for 83 sera, including 59 hyperlipidemic type IIA, IIB, and IV sera agreed very well, at least for concentrations of serum tri...

92% had THCA concentrations 30 zgfL. Of the 97 specimens that screened negative at 100 pgfL, 80% had quantitative values for THCA of 30 p gfL. This suggests that reducing the screening cutoff to 50 pgIL will not result in laboratories being flooded with large numbers of specimens for which the THCA concentrations are within 20% of the 15 ig/L confirmation cutoff. The THCA-positive detection rat...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C), an established cardiovascular risk factor, can be generally determined by calculation from total cholesterol, high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, and triglyceride concentrations. The aim of this study was to compare LDL-C estimations using various formulas with directly measured LDL-C in a community-based group and hospita...

Lipoprotein cholesterol concentrations in plasma are routinely estimated by using the Friedewald formula, whereby very-low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (VLDL-C) is estimated to be one-fifth the plasma triglyceride concentration. Ordinarily, this formula is applied only to plasma sampled from patients in the fasted state. To determine whether lipoprotein cholesterol measurements are altered s...