Lipid Panel With LDL:HDL Ratio

CPT: 80061
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Test Includes

Cholesterol, LDL:HDL ratio; lipid panel


Special Instructions

State patient's age and sex on the test request form.


Expected Turnaround Time

Within 1 day




Specimen Requirements


Specimen

Serum (preferred) or plasma


Volume

1 mL


Minimum Volume

0.7 mL (Note: This volume does not allow for repeat testing.)


Container

Red-top tube, gel-barrier tube, or green-top (lithium heparin) tube. Do not use oxalate, EDTA, or citrate plasma.


Collection

Separate serum or plasma from cells within 45 minutes of collection. Lipid panels are best avoided for three months following acute myocardial infarction, although cholesterol can be measured in the first 24 hours.


Storage Instructions

Maintain specimen at room temperature.


Stability Requirements

Temperature

Period

Room temperature

3 days

Refrigerated

14 days

Frozen

14 days

Freeze/thaw cycles

Stable x2


Patient Preparation

Patient should be on a stable diet, ideally for two to three weeks prior to collection of blood. Fasting is not necessary for this profile, however fasting for 12 to 14 hours priori to collection of the specimen is recommended where the triglyceride value provides a priori diagnostic information such as screening for familial hypercholesterolemia or early onset heart disease, pancreatitis, or confirming hypertriglyceridemia.


Causes for Rejection

Hemolysis


Test Details


Use

Abbreviations used are as follows: HDL-C, high-density lipoprotein cholesterol; LDL-C, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol; VLDL-C, very low-density lipoprotein cholesterol. Evaluation of hyperlipidemia as an index to coronary artery disease. Investigation of serum lipids is indicated in those with coronary and other arterial disease, especially when it is premature, and in those with family history of atherosclerosis or of hyperlipidemia. In this sense, the expression “premature” is mostly used to include those with a family history of premature CHD (definite myocardial infarction), or sudden death before 55 years of age in father or other male first-degree relative, or before 65 years of age in mother or other female first-degree relative. Patients with xanthomas should be worked up with lipid panels, but not those with xanthelasmas or xanthofibromas in the sense of dermatofibromas. Those whose fasting serum is lipemic should have a lipid panel, but the serum of a subject with high cholesterol but normal triglyceride is not milky in appearance. The patient with high cholesterol (>240 mg/dL) should have a lipid panel. Patients with cholesterol levels between 200−240 mg/dL plus two other coronary heart disease risk factors should also have a lipid panel.1 In addition to application in programs for evaluation of risk factors for coronary arterial disease, lipid profiling may lead to detection of some cases of hypothyroidism. If a patient has low LDL-C, but very low HDL-C, he/she may still be in jeopardy (Castelli of the Framingham study); therefore, LDL-C:HDL-C ratios are useful. Primary hyperlipoproteinemia includes hypercholesterolemia, a direct risk factor for coronary heart disease. Secondary hyperlipoproteinemias include increases of lipoproteins secondary to hypothyroidism, nephrosis, renal failure, obesity, diabetes mellitus, alcoholism, primary biliary cirrhosis, and other types of cholestasis.

Decreased lipids are found with some cases of malabsorption, malnutrition, advanced liver disease. In abetalipoproteinemia, cholesterol is <70 mg/dL.


Limitations

Patients with obstructive liver disease may develop lipoprotein abnormalities. Serum lipid factors have not been demonstrated to strongly influence recurrent stenosis following coronary angioplasty, the pathogenesis of which is presently not well understood. LDL cholesterol cannot be calculated if triglyceride is >800 mg/dL.


Methodology

See individual tests.


Footnotes

1. Report of the National Cholesterol Education Program Expert Panel on Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Cholesterol in Adults. The Expert Panel. Arch Intern Med. 1988 Jan; 148(1):36-69.3422148

LOINC® Map

Order Code Order Code Name Order Loinc Result Code Result Code Name UofM Result LOINC
235010 Lipid Panel With LDL/HDL Ratio 100898-6 001065 Cholesterol, Total mg/dL 2093-3
235010 Lipid Panel With LDL/HDL Ratio 100898-6 001172 Triglycerides mg/dL 2571-8
235010 Lipid Panel With LDL/HDL Ratio 100898-6 011817 HDL Cholesterol mg/dL 2085-9
235010 Lipid Panel With LDL/HDL Ratio 100898-6 011919 VLDL Cholesterol Cal mg/dL 13458-5
235010 Lipid Panel With LDL/HDL Ratio 100898-6 012059 LDL Chol Calc (NIH) mg/dL 13457-7
235010 Lipid Panel With LDL/HDL Ratio 100898-6 011923 LDL Calc Comment: N/A
235010 Lipid Panel With LDL/HDL Ratio 100898-6 011852 LDL/HDL Ratio ratio 11054-4

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