What is serum cholesterol?
Last reviewed Tue 17 April 2018
By Jennifer Huizen
Reviewed by Elaine K. Luo, MD
Cholesterol is a type of body fat, or lipid. A serum cholesterol level is a measurement of certain elements in the blood, including the amount of high- and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL and LDL) in a person's blood.
Serum cholesterol levels also show the amount of triglycerides present. Triglycerides are another lipid that can be measured in the blood.
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