Cholesterol levels

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I recently had a blood test and am a bit confused about my results
The doctor has just made a note to discuss at next appointment
Can anyone explain these? I thought with a level of 8 I would be called into the doctors

Serum Cholesterol 8 moll/L
HDL Cholesterol 2.8
Ratio 2.9
LDL 4.7
non HDL 5.2

Thankyou!

Just to add there is a family history of high cholesterol levels and heart attacks

There's more focus on your ratio - yours is below the guidance level, I think. How old are you and what is your QRisk?

I’m 54
Not quite sure how to find out my QRisk

There's one here https://qrisk.org/

A lot depends on whether you've smoked and health of parents - those things seem to affect the score, from memory.

Unfortunately cardiocascular disease is massively underdiagnosed and quite often even when family members suffer heart attacks opportunities are missed to take a simple blood test and lipid panel to ascertain whether familial hypercholesterolemia is a factor.

Your LDL cholesterol is objectively high at 4.7mmol/L.

The fact that you have a family history of cardiovascular disease is a massive red flag.

Untreated high LDL cholesterol is a silent creeping condition that will often have men having heart attacks before 50 and women by 60 - even when active, slim, teetotal non-smokers, still able to wear that dress.

Go back and throttle your GP, raise the familial history of CVD, and get yourself on statins to bring your cholesterol level back to the optimal range of below 2.6mmol/l asap. Lifestyle changes alone won't cut it.

Thanks for the replies
I will call the doctors today, I think as I don’t drink or smoke and am only slightly overweight they probably don’t think the results are too bad
Several close family members have had heart attacks so it’s not somethingI want to ignore