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SerialStateLineXer t1_itlkwxh wrote

Reply to comment by Meatrition in Association between triglyceride-to-high-density lipoprotein cholesterol ratio and prediabetes: a cross-sectional study in Chinese non-obese people with a normal range of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol | Journal of Translational Medicine by Meatrition

These seemed like extremely low ratios. At first I thought Chinese people were just really healthy, but then I realized that because cholesterol and triglycerides have different molar weights, the ratio is different depending on whether HDL and TG are expressed in mmol/L or mg/dL. You need to multiply by about 2.2 to convert mmol/L ratios to mg/dL ratios (the kind you typically get in the US).

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