How pointless was this health check?

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Hi
Just back from a well woman type health check.
It was at 2:30 pm and there was no recommendation of fasting.
45 mins before I went I ate some bacon, some olives, almonds and 2 squares of chocolate.

My cholesterol (6.7 total, ratio 4.4) and my blood sugar (also 6.7) will both have been significantly affected by this, won't they? I kept saying "look, I ate 45 mins ago" but the health care assistant just looked blankly at me.

Does the blood test mean long term levels (like hba1c for sugar) or ‘this is it this minute’? I don’t know about cholesterol but don’t think it goes up and down like blood sugar levels so it won’t matter if you ate. And you don’t fast for hba1c test as it covers the last three months.

I thought that some blood tests, they now don't ask you to fast because they are looking at different pictures of what's happening.

I'm sorry to say I have also met the odd person who can't join the dots, or perhaps they are just really tired and can't compute stuff any more. wait and see what the doc says I guess.

If it's a random glucose test you don't need to fast. Hard to know within knowing what they are testing for

• Cholesterol you shouldn't need to fast.

• Glucose/blood sugar depends completely on the test they are using. Most of the time now they ask you not to fast.

Sorry I have got that test wrong. It is an HbA1g test and it was 37, not 67.
So is that a long term measure? Not affected by foods I recently ate?

HbA1c is a long term one so a one off meal won’t have made a difference.

Ok so what it is saying is:
My blood sugar is ok, not brilliant
My overall cholesterol is high, but as my good cholesterol is also high (1.53) the overall ratio isn't horrific and I am not about to drop down dead of a heart attack, but should try to reduce my cholesterol overall?

I used to take benecol. Maybe I should start again.

Your blood sugar level is actually really good if its 37.
Not sure on cholesterol.