%0 Journal Article %T Friedewald¡¯s equation for calculating LDL-cholesterol: Is it the time to say ¡°Goodbye¡± and adopt direct LDL cholesterol methods? %A Ahmed Nadeem %A Farah Sobia %A Nadeem Fazal %A Najmusaqib Khan Niazi %A Sikandar Hayat Khan %A Syed Mohsin Manzoor %J Archive of "Pakistan Journal of Medical Sciences". %D 2019 %R 10.12669/pjms.35.2.679 %X To measure correlation and concordance between measured LDL cholesterol (mLDLc) and Friedewald¡¯s calculated LDL cholesterol (cLDLc). To compare the mLDLc and cLDLc values for various anthropometric measures and biochemical indices including insulin resistance, nephropathy, glycated hemoglobin and triglycerides %K Urine albumin creatinine ration (UACR) %K measured LDL-cholesterol (mLDLc) %K Calculated LDL-cholesterol (cLDLc) %K Friedewald¡¯s equation %U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6500835/