Blood Test Results Interpretation Help page

[ryanwtyler]

anyone who can help,

I am a 33 year old, healthy (I thought), extremely active crossfitter. I have been active my whole life and have been crossfitting since August. I decided i was going to really try to improve my diet which hasn’t been great. My “before” body fat is 10.4%. I recently got the results of my lipid profile and diabetes screen.

Lipid Profile:

Cholesterol, Total: 145
Triglycerides: 30
HDL Cholesterol: 69 (it says > 59 is negative risk factor for CHD)
VLDL: 6
LDL: 70

That looks great but here comes the bad news.

Diabetes Screen:

Glucose: 90
Hemoglobin A1C: 5.9% (reference interval is 4.8-5.6)
Bunch of normal readings
MCHC: 31.9 (reference range is 32-36)

My question is can you give me some insight to why it is that my Lipid profile is so good and diabetes screen so bad. is there anything specific i can do to target a1c and MCHC?

Will my low triglyceride negatively effect workouts or cause any other problems?

Thanks very much.

[lizch]

Found this: http://clinical.diabetesjournals.org.../22/3/141.full
"Although it can be falsely low, there are other conditions that can lead to a falsely elevated A1C, including alcoholism, lead poisoning, opiate addiction, excessive use of salicylate (due to interference), and pregnancy. The increase is often small and is not of clinical relevance, leaving diabetes in the majority of cases as the primary cause of A1C elevation."

[lizch]

By the way, I'm also finding general upper limits in the 6.0% to 6.5% range. Your cut-off seems unusually low?