General physical examination with blood laboratory tests
Detection item:
Routine physical examination
Data type:
Numeric type
Description:
Values for density ranges of the lipoprotein classes are approximate. Measurement of the amount of cholesterol, a eukaryotic sterol that in higher animals is the precursor of bile acids and steroid hormones and a key constituent of cell membranes, carried in low-density lipoprotein (LDL) molecules in a specified volume of serum that separates from blood after it has clotted completely.