Your doctor may order blood tests during your exam
because it may contain important information about what is making
you tick, or not tick, correctly. Become a well-educated health
care consumer by clicking on the links below and learning how
to spot key things on your blood test:
Cholesterol
Prostate Specific Antigen
(PSA)
Triglycerides
Blood Pressure
Are you at risk
for a heart attack?
Below is a chart of examples of results on the above mentioned
tests.
Sample Blood Test Scores
| Cholesterol |
HDL
level (high density lipoprotein) |
66 |
| Cholesterol |
LDL
level (low density lipoprotein) |
186 |
| Total
cholesterol |
HDL
+ LDL = total cholesterol |
252 |
| LDL/HDL
ratio |
total cholesterol divided by HDL
|
3.82 |
| PSA
level |
Blood
test to detect symptoms of prostate cancer |
0.7 |
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