PPLP - bloodwork numbers

[LisaS]

mods - feel free to move this if another section is better -

I've loaned out my PPLP - and now my housemate (eventually-to-be-"former DH"-who-is-now-a-roommate-again -- its a long story) has new bloodwork results and we want to compare but don't have the reference.

Can someone please post the reference numbers and/or "we like to see" numbers from PPLP for:
Serum Ferritin and/or the other iron measurements addressed
Fasting insulin
blood lipid rations (TG/HDL , TC/LDL - can remember which they are)
Hb A1c (or 1Ac - I always mix that up)

[Gabriel Guzman]

They recommend serum ferritin to no higher than 10 mg/dl; fasting insulin no higher than 10 mU/ml. The normal value for HbA1c should be no higher than 5%, which means '5', which in turn represents a glucose reading of 100 mg/dl.

For the blood lipid ratios, TG/HDL should be no higher than (which is actually the ratio of minimum levels for TG -100 mg/dl, and HDL -50 mg/dl); TC/HDL should be no higher than 4 and LDL/HDL should be no higher than 3.

[LisaS]

Thanks Gabe -
would you mean TG/HDL < 2 then, that being the ratio of 100/50 ?

[Gabriel Guzman]

Oops... indeed! I didn't write the '2'. Thanks for catching that!