Triglycerides are the most common form of fat in the body. Hypothyroidism is a disease in which your thyroid gland produces too few hormones. Having hypothyroidism increases your risk for unhealthy cholesterol levels, according to "The New York Times" Health Guide, including high LDL, or "bad"

The pancreas is located just behind your stomach in the upper abdomen. It manufactures insulin and other digestive enzymes. Pancreatitis is the medical term for inflammation of the pancreas. It can be acute, which means it occurs suddenly, or it can be chronic, meaning it happens over and over again.

Cholesterol and triglycerides are substances in the body known as lipids. When both of these levels become elevated, it is known as a lipid disorder. If only your triglyceride levels rise, it is called hypertriglyceridemia.

News media often report on high fat and cholesterol levels in the body. It is known that high levels of cholesterol can lead to health problems such as heart disease. While triglycerides are a part of a lipid profile, not as much attention was given to them until more recently.

Triglycerides are a type of fat found in the blood and women with unhealthy lifestyles are at risk for high triglycerides and heart disease.

Although the hormone insulin is most often associated with glucose, what insulin does is help move substances from your bloodstream into your cells -- and that includes triglycerides. Elevated triglycerides often go hand-in-hand with high blood sugar because insulin is needed to remove both from your bloodstream.

Conditions such as diabetes and kidney failure can be exacerbated by a diet that increases your triglyceride levels. Unused dietary calories become triglycerides that circulate in your bloodstream and negatively affect your blood cholesterol. This puts you at greater risk for heart attack and stroke.

Triglycerides are lipids that circulate in the blood. Triglycerides are fats, and they are used by a cell to produce adenosine triphosphate (ATP), which is the energy currency of a cell. After the body consumes a meal with fats, the unused portions are transported to fat cells and stored as triglycerides.

Triglycerides and cholesterol are both lipids (fats). They both circulate in the bloodstream and are escorted through the blood vessels by lipoproteins. High levels of either can cause heart and circulatory problems. The differences between the two are how they perform inside the body.

Triglyceride levels rise and fall depending on how much fat the body stores. Doctors are generally more concerned about high levels of triglyceride, described as a blood level of 150 mg/dL or higher, than they are about low triglyceride levels. Michael Miller, M.D.

If you have low HDL and high triglycerides, your doctor has likely advised you to modify your diet in order to raise HDL and lower your triglycerides level. There are several ways you can achieve these goals, both of which will help to prevent heart disease and atherosclerosis, or hardening of the arteries.

The National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute created the National Cholesterol Education Program in November 1985 to inform the American public about the dangers of high blood cholesterol and how to lower cholesterol through lifestyle changes.