Talk:Triglyceride

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I just found out I have very high triglyceride I need to know what proper medication or drugs should i take and the proper diet...how long will it take me to recover from this?

That is something that your doctor should go over with you. Her answers will depend on specifically how high your triglycerides are, and on reviewing the results of other tests in your "lipid profile", and may include recommendations on your diet, or for specific medications or vitamins. - Nunh-huh 02:45, 29 Jun 2004 (UTC)

8000 kg/kg ==> 9 kcal/g

This text says triglycerides store 8000kcal/kg. The usual amount is 9kcal/g. I think g is a more useful unit than kg, but that's not a problem. However, not sure why this article uses 8000 rather than 9000. I recommend it be changed to 9kcal/g.

Please correct it yourself. Be bold in updating Wikipedia. JFW | T@lk 22:35, 5 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Is it possible the 8kcal/g number is correct? Free fatty acids have 9000kcal/g, but does the addition of the glycerol backbone bring down the calorie total slightly? I seem to recall that glycerol is 5kcal/g or so. Anyone know more about this? Frankg 21:28, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

What food has high triglycerides?

I've heard that high triglycerides (I've got it too) are partly from having a diet of foods that contain lots of animal fat--meats--and that one good way to combat high triglycerides is to eat less meat and more fruits and veggies. Better exercise helps reduce it, too. You might also look at Omega-3 fish oil or ask your doctor about a prescription for a drug like Tricor.

• On the other hand, I had ridiculously high triglycerides until I stopped being a vegetarian (after 32 years) and got on a high protein (modified Atkins) diet; all of my lipid numbers went from scary insane to better than average. Of course, getting more exercise helped a lot too. --jpgordon∇∆∇∆ 7 July 2005 17:06 (UTC)

I think it's fair to say that different people respond to different types of diets. For some people, removing sugar and starch will improve triglyceride levels; for others, removing saturated fat will do the job. Frankg 21:28, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

I think a table is needed showing the high/low and safe ranges (of foods containing triglycerides), plus the ranges that people with diabetes need to keep their intake to seeing they are much more at risk of heart disease. I'd do it myself if I knew how to set a table up here and had the information to fill it. AlanHarmony Aug 22, 2007 —The preceding signed but undated comment was added at 07:52, August 22, 2007 (UTC).

Bacterial fatty acids

Branched and odd-chain fatty acids are more common than the article suggested so have edited to reflect this. Bacteria in particular posess the ability to produce fatty acids from propionyl CoA hence producing odd-chain length FAs.

Adding to Triglyceride article

This is a great article, but I believe that there is much more information on triglycerides. I don't mean to be rude, but I am suggesting that more information should be added to the article

Go ahead, add what you know. Wikipedia is a work in progress. Of course there is more to add! Hell, there's hundreds of papers a year. JFW | T@lk 08:40, 4 November 2005 (UTC)

Improving Lay-person Readability

This article may be written quite well, however, at the moment it is too technical for proper comprehension, at least by myself. Perhaps if technical terms were followed by a definition it would prove a more useful article.

— Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.250.39.40 (talk • contribs) 20:23, 28 May 2006

My husband has a high triglyceride level. He is in the hopital tonight with the level of over 3000. I have not found a lot of things on this so I do agree with your statement. If anyone knows of a helpful sight please let me know.

I must agree with you. My husband was also diagnosed with high tri. Since I was not at his appointment with him, I was unable to find out if I need to change his eating habits, get him to exercise more, be aware of changes in him that may be related. I got a prescription filled, but that is the only thing I know.

(~~lookingoutforus~~)07:34,9/14/08

Cigarettes contain cholesterol?

The article currently states that cigarettes contain cholesterol and the way the section is written, seem to imply that smoking increases triglyceride levels by providing fatty acids directly (rather than by affecting metabolism, etc.) A quick web search turned up no substantiation of this. Is there any reason to believe it?

Good catch, the cigarette thing sounds like it's completely false. Frankg 00:13, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

• I've removed it. I've left in the following sentence about quitting smoking, since I don't know if it's wrong or right. --jpgordon^∇∆∇∆ 17:23, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

The entry makes several references to HDL. Sure would be nice to have a linked entry on that topic...

Carcinogenicity of processed oils

In the article it is claimed that processed oils are carcinogenic; however no evidence of this fact is cited. I will delete this claim unless evidence is produced to support it. Mnc4t 23:44, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

What predicts CHD

This study suggests non-fasting lipids are much more informative. JFW | T@lk 21:56, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject class rating

This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as start, and the rating on other projects was brought up to start class. BetacommandBot 16:32, 10 November 2007 (UTC)