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How is it How My
Risk Factor What is It? Target Range
Done? Often? Numbers
Total:
LDL:
Talk to your doctor.
A waxy substance
produced by Yearly or as Most people with
Generally, a fasting diabetes age 40–75 will
Cholesterol the liver or from
blood test.
recommended HDL:
foods derived by your doctor. be prescribed a statin
from animals. for primary ASCVD
prevention.
Triglycerides:
*per heart.org/en/healthy-living/healthy-eating/losing-weight/bmi-in-adults
**per cdc.gov/healthyweight/assessing/index.html
How is it How My
Risk Factor What is It? Target Range
Done? Often? Numbers
Urine & GFR test:
Blood Tests:
Kidneys filter eGFR > 60 is normal
waste and fluid Estimated glomerular eGFR < 60 may mean you eGFR:
from the body. filtration rate (eGFR) have kidney disease
tests how well
Yearly or as
Kidney Albumin and the kidneys are eGFR < or = 15 is
recommended kidney failure
Function creatinine are filtering blood.
by your doctor. Albuminuria test:
proteins that can
pass into the urine A urine test, called Albuminuria test:
when the kidneys ACR, checks 30 mg/g or less is normal
are damaged. levels of albumin
compared to > 30 mg/g may be a sign
creatinine. of kidney disease
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