Total cholesterol / LDL levels decrease before RA | Arthritis Information

http://ard.bmj.com/cgi/content/short/ard.2009.122374v1?rss=1

Well, well, well...... isn't this interesting. I happen to have a matrix of all my blood work values over the years and this is how I fared. [I was diagnosed in 1994.]

	1988	1994	1995	1999
Total Cholesterol	224	186	188	245
LDL	155	87	89	159
HDL	60	81	81	58
Triglycerides	55	94	94	140

Incidentally, the formula for Total Cholesterol is:

HDL + LDL + (Triglycerides/5) = Total Cholesterol