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)
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[edit] 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.
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- 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)
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- 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)
[edit] 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.
[edit] 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)
[edit] 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.
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.
[edit] 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...
