It's one of the most basic health screening tests and one of the most important. A person's cholesterol levels can reveal a lot about their cardiovascular disease risk. "Those levels, over the course of someone's lifetime, is one of the single-best predictors of a risk of heart attack or stroke," said Dr. Amy Cheney, a cardiologist at Overlake Medical Center. When a patient gets cholesterol tested from a blood draw, doctors will focus on several figures measuring their overall cholesterol count, triglycerides, and their HDL and LDL cholesterol. Read more: https://www.king5.com/article/news/health/what-know-cholesterol-healthlink/281-384a2d48-6b24-4a11-9523-c0f317d9dec5