Cholesterol - The Good, The Bad And The Ugly

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Article Date: 12 Sep 2007 - 19:00 PDT

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HDL (the good), LDL (the bad) and sdLDL (the ugly) cholesterol tests are now available from Randox as direct clearance methods for fully automated clinical chemistry analysers. All assays are highly accurate in abnormal samples and are standardized against ultracentrifugation, the CDC reference method.

Total cholesterol, triglycerides and apolipoproteins are also available; high quality calibrators and controls complete the Randox range of lipid profile tests.

Randox manufactures clinical diagnostic solutions around a central ethos that all products should provide TLC (Time, Labour and Cost saving) and offer a continuously expanding analyte menu. Randox offers over 1000 clinical chemistry products that are manufactured to the highest quality standards.

Randox is an international diagnostics company, headquartered in the UK. Randox develop, manufacture and market clinical diagnostic products worldwide. Core products are: Biochip Array Technology; clinical chemistry analysers and reagents; quality controls and EQA; environmental diagnostics; recombinant proteins and antibodies.

http://www.randox.com

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