Total Cholesterol to HDL Ratio Calculator

The single most quoted lipid ratio, and the one most often printed on a cardiovascular risk report.

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Your Total Cholesterol to HDL Ratio

Reference bands

ResultBand
Under 3.5Optimal
3.5 to 5.0Acceptable
Above 5.0High

Commonly used bands; below 5 is widely treated as acceptable and below 3.5 as optimal.

One number is one line of your test.

BloodMarker reads your whole panel and tells you what the lines say together, which is the part no single calculation can do.

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Questions

What is a good total cholesterol to HDL ratio?

Under 5 is generally treated as acceptable and under 3.5 as optimal.

Is the ratio more useful than total cholesterol?

It carries more information than the total alone, because a high total driven by high HDL is a different picture from the same total driven by high LDL.

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Not medical advice. These calculators are for information only. Reference bands differ between laboratories and none of these numbers can be interpreted without your history, your other results and a clinician. Nothing you type here is sent to us or stored on a server.