BIOL 4030 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Atorvastatin, Great Saphenous Vein, Thrombus
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^ldl means low-density lipoprotein, you cant have a lipoprotein within a lipoprotein. The cholesterol in all of these lipoproteins is the cholesterol ester. So if you don"t have enough lpl, you are not getting enough tg being converted to fatty acids. The level of tg wouldn"t decrease in this case. c . hdl cholesterol transports cholesterol from peripheral cells to the liver true. Ldl is what gets taken up by the liver, not hdl. From my understanding ldl carries cholesterol from the liver to muscle and adipose tissue. Hdl carries cholesterol to liver from peripheral cells. Thats why they say hdl cholesterol is good, it mops up excess cholesterol. Can"t tell based on the messy annotations: false, false, true. For questions 2 - 5, choose the most serious side effect for the listed medication. a. elevated creatinine b. elevated creatine kinase (ck) c. elevated blood glucose d. elevated triglyceride e. increased bleeding risk.