James Sullivan, the drummer for the Huntington Beach rock band Avenged Sevenfold, died on Monday, according to Orange County authorities. The cause of death is still under investigation. Sullivan, 28, was found unresponsive inside his home.
High total cholesterol and low HDL cholesterol increases the ratio, and is undesirable. Conversely, high HDL cholesterol and low total cholesterol lowers the ratio, and is desirable. An average ratio would be about 4.5. Ideally we want to be better than average if we can. Thus the best ratio would be 2 or 3, or less than 4.
HDL/LDL. Apart from the TC/HDL number, there is another number which is the proportion of HDL to LDL. You can calculate this yourself by taking your HDL level and dividing it by your LDL number. So for example, if one has an HDL level of 40 mg/dL and LDL of 140 mg/dL, the HDL/LDL ratio would be about 0.29. The goal here is to keep this number above 0.3, with the most ideal result of having it closer to or above 0.4.