Cholesterol

The importance of the knowledge of one’s blood cholesterol level has been stressed extensively in countless publications. An abnormally high level is one of the major risk factors for heart disease. The sooner the abnormality is found, the better the prognosis since each year more than a million people in the United States have heart attacks and about a half million die from heart disease. Healthtech’s equipment provides an accurate measurement of total cholesterol, HDL-cholesterol, and triglycerides. The LDL-cholesterol is given from a calculation.