In message <[log in to unmask]>, Jonathan
Kay <[log in to unmask]> writes
>According to the British Cardiac Society recommendations (Heart, Dec
>1998, Vol 80, Supp 2, pS25) the Friedewald formula is, using mmol/L:
>LDL cholesterol = total cholesterol - HDL cholesterol - (0.45 x
>triglyceride).
>
>Except some colleagues tell me the factor should be 0.46, not 0.45.
>
>Can someone post the "correct" value or the reason for the discrepancy
>(possibly rounding of a factor that was originally created using
>different units, possbly a typo) so that I don't have to go and find the
>literature myself?
>
>Thanks in advance
>
>Dr Jonathan Kay
>University of Oxford
>
we always use divide by 2.2
TIM
--
Prof. Tim Reynolds,
Professor of Chemical Pathology,
Queen's Hospital,
Burton-on-Trent,
UK.
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