{"id":51,"date":"2008-04-18T06:27:04","date_gmt":"2008-04-18T06:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.gregbueno.com\/wp\/vexvox\/2008\/04\/18\/those_numbers_look_hot_but_not\/"},"modified":"2008-04-18T06:27:04","modified_gmt":"2008-04-18T06:27:04","slug":"those_numbers_look_hot_but_not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/vexvox\/2008\/04\/18\/those_numbers_look_hot_but_not\/","title":{"rendered":"Those numbers look hot, but not that one"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I went in for more blood work about two weeks ago, and I finally got the results today. It&#039;s a follow-up from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gregbueno.com\/index.php\/vexvox\/entry\/3882\/\">previous visit<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gregbueno.com\/index.php\/vexvox\/entry\/3873\/\">one before that<\/a>. Note to myself: the next blood test will be in August with a liver panel (whatever that means.)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Total cholesterol: 150 (normal range 140-200, down -35 from 185)<\/li>\n<li>Triglycerides: 87 (normal range 35-160, down -21 from 108)<\/li>\n<li>HDL (good cholesterol): 36 (min. 40, down -1 from 37)<\/li>\n<li>LDL (bad cholesterol): 97 (normal range, 80-130, down -30 from 127, hypertension range 80-100)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Everything but the HDL (the good cholesterol) is looking good. In fact, it went down one after a jump of two. I can&#039;t say I like taking medicine that requires me to eat before bed, especially since I work out in the evenings. But given the drastic drops in the LDL and triglycerides, I can&#039;t dispute the results.<\/p>\n<p>I think I need to schedule an appointment with the doctor to talk about the HDL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went in for more blood work about two weeks ago, and I finally got the results today. It&#039;s a follow-up from the previous visit and the one before that. Note to myself: the next blood test will be in August with a liver panel (whatever that means.) Total cholesterol: 150 (normal range 140-200, down [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Bkgj-P","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/vexvox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/vexvox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/vexvox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/vexvox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/vexvox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/vexvox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/vexvox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/vexvox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/vexvox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}