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Many of the steps you should take to lower triglycerides are the same ones you should take to protect your heart and health overall. If you're overweight, shed a few pounds. Get regular aerobic exercise the kind that increases your heart rate.
Limit the saturated fats in meat and dairy products. Watch your alcohol intake, even moderate drinking ramps up triglyceride levels. And diet? If you're taking a statin to lower your LDL, one side benefit may be reduced triglyceride levels.
The omega-3 fats in fish and fish oil capsules are another triglyceride-lowering option. For a very high triglyceride level, your doctor can prescribe a high-dose omega-3 medication. As a service to our readers, Harvard Health Publishing provides access to our library of archived content. Please note the date of last review or update on all articles. No content on this site, regardless of date, should ever be used as a substitute for direct medical advice from your doctor or other qualified clinician.
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Please try again. Something went wrong on our side, please try again. Show references High blood triglycerides. National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. Accessed Aug. When we eat foods containing triglycerides, such as meat, dairy products, cooking oils and fats, they are absorbed by our intestines and packaged into parcels of fats and protein called chylomicrons a type of lipoprotein.
These carry the triglycerides in the blood stream to our tissues to be used for energy straight away, or stored for later. The body also makes its own supply of triglycerides in the liver. This form is carried in a different type of lipoprotein known as VLDL cholesterol. Triglycerides are measured with a simple blood test. Triglyceride levels should be measured when you have a cholesterol test as they can also contribute to your risk of developing heart disease, and other disease of the heart and blood vessels.
The triglyceride test measures the triglycerides carried in chylomicrons and VLDL cholesterol. National guidelines in the UK no longer recommend a fasting blood test where you fast for a period of time before your blood test. If your doctor has asked you to fast for a test usually for hours then your triglyceride level should be below 1. This "fasting test" number is lower because only the triglycerides made by the liver and carried in the VLDL cholesterol will be measured — not the triglycerides you get from food.
As you have not eaten, there will be no chylomicrons present in your blood. Triglycerides can be raised due to what doctors refer to as 'primary' and 'secondary' causes, explained below.
Some people have a combination of both.
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