What is the difference between cholesterol and triglycerides?!
Question: Also, can you feel sick if both have been elevated for a long time?
Thank you...
Answers: Also, can you feel sick if both have been elevated for a long time?
Thank you...
Ifyou are referring to blood lipid values..
Cholesterol refers to total of LDL,IDL (i think) and HDL
Triglycerides refers to VLDLs and if you dont fast i believe that chylomicrons will show up as well
The difference is that VLDLs contain mainly triglycerides compared to cholesterol. These loose the triglycerides to then become LDL which have proportionaly more cholesterol compared to tryglycerides.
I give a more detailed, and hopefully less confusing explaination here
http://cholesterolwise.bravehost.com/
You may feel sick if they have been elevated for a long time, but they are unlikely to be the cause of making you feel sick, but rather a symptom.
Cholesterol is an alcohol, widely distributed in our body, especially tissues, it can also be systhesized in our liver and is in bile fluids. It is important in bodily metabolism serving as a precursor of various hormones, ie. sex hormones, adrenal corticoids,etc. It can also build up as fat globules in our arteries of major organs; ie. heart, brain, etc. Hypercholesterol-emia is a large blood count of this sterol in us.
Triglycerides, are a combination of glycerol, with three fatty acids: steric, olecic and palmitic. Most animal and vegetable fats are triglycerides.
You can also search on Yahoo and type in either for more indepth information, prevention of hyper-values, diets, etc.
You can get sick if either or both are elevated...like blockage of coronary arteries, diabetes, etc.
Good luck! :O)