Cholesterol Cholestrol

comparing two types of cholesterol readings?

hi, just got a statistical assignment to do comparing two sets of data on cholesterol. I have an initial SBP and DBP of patients then a Cholesterol reading (total serum cholesterol) after 6 months. i know nothing about cholestrol so can someone tell me how i am suppost to compare both/either SBP, DBP with total serum cholesterol? (maybe its just a simple answer i.e. SBP is the same as total serum cholesterol)

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1. You dont need to know about cholesterol; the answer is in the paired t-test you should do.
2. I can only speculate that this assignment calls for comparing blood pressures in patients with hyerlipidemia (high cholesterol). SBP is often used as an acronym for systolic blood pressure, whereas DBP is used to refer to the diastolic blood pressure. Systolic blood pressure is NOT the same as serologic values on a Lipid profile (whether talking about Total Cholesterol, Low Density Lipoprotein or High Density Lipoprotein). My inclination is that they're trying to have you compare the resultant chances in blood pressure in populations of patients as they pertain to their serum lipid profiles. To understand how high cholesterold (hyperlipidemia) is diagnosed and treated would require a more serious treatment than I have space for, my apologies. I recommend doing a search, perhaps in wikipedia for "cholesterol" or google "interpreting lipid panel."