Clinical Utility- Evaluate the risk for coronary heart disease
- Diagnosis of Atherosclerosis (arteriosclerotic vascular disease)
- Diagnosis of familial hypercholesterolemia
- Used to evaluate the effectiveness of drug therapy (cholesterol lowering drugs)
- As an aid in evaluation of diabetes mellitus, nephrotic syndrome, and liver disease with biliary obstruction
- As an aid in evaluation of fatty liver in chronic alcoholism
- As an aid in diagnosis of lipoproteinemia due to lipase deficiency
- Monitoring drug treatment therapy