What is a Cholesterol HDL Ratio?
There are two types of cholesterol levels: the good and the bad. The good type is called the HDL (High Density Lipoproteins) which helps to keep the bad levels away from your arteries by transporting them down to your liver and disposing them out of your body. The bad levels are called LDL (Low Density Lipoproteins) that, when at a high level, causes massive build-up in the walls of the arteries leading up to your brain and heart, thus putting you at risk of many different kinds of heart disease such as congestive heart failure, heart attack and stroke. It is very important to maintain a good balance of cholesterol proteins and this can be done by making sure that the cholesterol HDL ratio is a number less than 4. The average number is around 4.5, but a number reading less than 4 is ideal.
