Dr Amir Khan
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We want your total cholesterol to be below four.
Now, I'm saying total cholesterol because that is made up with your HDLs and your LDLs.
So you also want specific numbers for your HDLs and LDLs because you might have a relatively high amount of cholesterol.
But if a lot of it is your good cholesterol, it's not so bad, right?
So with your LDLs, we want to keep that number below three.
And with your HDLs, it's different for men and women.
For men, we want it above one.
And for women, we want it above 1.2.
You could have it right now.
I could have it right now.
I probably do because I'm a man, I'm South Asian, and I've got a family history.
But you look so good.
But that's the outside, babes, the outside.
The inside might not so much.
Never judge a book.
Exactly.
It is springtime in Japan.
Sadly not.
So everyone over 40 or over is offered an NHS health check.
And that will look at your blood pressure, your weight, but also your cholesterol, what we call a lipid profile.