1 Individuals with triglyceride levels of greater than 400 mg/dL.  LDL Cholesterol Direct is not affected by fasting status. However, if a calculation method is used the patient must be fasting for tests used in the calculation; i.e., triglycerides.
Byronic hero. The Byronic hero is a variant of the Romantic hero as a type of character, named after the English Romantic poet Lord Byron. Both Byron's life and writings have been considered in different ways to exemplify the type.
Posted on January 4, 2010 at 3:22 AM. Oedipus is the prototypical tragic hero, according to Aristotle in The Poetics. Aristotle has little to say about the play Antigone, which presents at least two primary tragic heroes: Creon and Antigone. My favorite definition of tragic hero is critic Northrop Frye's: Tragic heroes are so much the highest points in their human landscape that they seem the inevitable conductors of the power about them, great trees more likely to be struck by lightning than a clump of grass.