<b>Comparação entre o LDL - colesterol obtido pela fórmula de Friedewald e a dosagem sérica por método enzimático</b> - doi: 10.5102/ucs.v10i2.1561

Abstract

Resumo AbstractRecent studies show a correlation between the LDL-C increase with atherosclerosis risk. Th e majority of patients with dyslipidemia show no signs or symptoms of lipid abnormality, so the diagnosis is almost exclusively determined by plasma lipids. Th e LDL-C plasma is measured by two methods, enzymatic direct method and indirect method which is calculated according to the Friedewald formula. We analyzed 104 samples. It was found that the estimation of LDL-C tends to show higher results, highly signifi cant