Lipids
Triglycerides
Fat circulating in the blood, largely carried there by your most recent meals.
Unit mg/dLTypical adult range < 150 mg/dL
What it is
Fat circulating in the blood, largely carried there by your most recent meals.
Why it matters
High values track with insulin resistance, and very high ones carry a risk of pancreatitis.
Reading the number
This is the lipid most sensitive to fasting, so compare fasted samples only with fasted samples. A high value also distorts the calculated LDL above it.
What moves it
last mealalcohol in the past daycarbohydrate intakeuncontrolled diabetes
When to raise it
Worth flagging a value that stays high across fasted tests.
Also known as
On a report in another language.
A lab report names this analyte in its own language. Vitals Vault recognises each of these and files them all under Triglycerides.
TriglicéridosTriglicerídeosTriglütseriididTriglyzerideTriglycérides
Catalog entry last updated 2026-08-27. Browse all 165 metrics.