Talk:Low-density lipoprotein

Minor issues

"A diet rich in plant foods and low in animal-derived foods such as meats, eggs, and dairy products has long been promoted to lower LDL levels in all patients, since plants contain no cholesterol."

This is a very false statement. Eating a certain mix of plants might, but eating nothing but potatoes would certainly elevate LDL. shanman75 —Preceding undated comment added 00:35, 9 January 2014 (UTC)

Care to cite any sources, i.e. the one you got the quote from? "Eating nothing but potatoes" is not a diet "rich in plant foods" (such wording would imply richness in diversity, not just total amount). Lumberjane Lilly (talk) 17:37, 22 September 2021 (UTC)

It is unlikely that shanman75 will respond because he left that comment in 2014 but on the topic of foods and LDL a decent systematic review of randomized controlled trials was published in 2021. There is good evidence that tomatoes, almonds, unsaturated oils and soluble fiber (oats) decrease LDL [1]. Unfortunately there is not much out there in the medical literature about potatoes currently. Psychologist Guy (talk) 19:08, 22 September 2021 (UTC)

This whole LDL thing is such a brutaly fascinating subject. First time in my life I got diagnosed with it being higher just when I did go to low-fat low-carb diet to get lighter in order to lower my pre-hypertension, nausea issue. I am doing tons of research of primary sources and having wikipedia with tons of stuff re-searched already is so helpful to get bigger picture. 1 gives more explanation to the state. It seems in such different energy metabolism there is very little knowledge about behaviour of things like LDL and atheresclerosis. Might be interesting to gather more from different studies and possibly enrich wikipedia. This field is still so much mysterious as not many things in our lives. EDIT: I did read this article and I find it missing quite a lot of findings I saw in studies on the LDL subject. How can I approach it? Is there someone who can give me some guidance? no need to hurry. I will keep with researching the papers for following weeks. Krypto Švejk (talk) 23:52, 23 January 2024 (UTC)

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Major issues

The optimal range table currently listed is extremely dubious. A LDL serum concentration of 100mg/dl which is universally accepted as healthy by healthcare orgs would be in the 95th MESA percentile according to that table. suspect unit conversion error. The conversion factor between LDL mg/dl and nmol/L is 1e3/38.67 '); DROP TABLE ARTICLES;-- (talk) 19:29, 31 July 2024 (UTC)