Triglycerides Unit Converter

In short Triglycerides is reported in mg/dL in some countries and mmol/L in others, and the two are related by a fixed factor: 1 mg/dL = 0.0112939 mmol/L, so to go the other way you divide by 88.5434. 150 mg/dL is 1.7 mmol/L; 200 mg/dL is 2.3 mmol/L; 500 mg/dL is 5.6 mmol/L. The factor is not arbitrary — it comes from the molar mass, because triglycerides are measured as triolein, molar mass 885.4 g/mol, and that is why every analyte has its own factor rather than one shared conversion. This is the line of a lipid panel that people convert wrongly, because it is the one that does not share the cholesterol factor. Triolein is more than twice the molar mass of cholesterol, so the divisor is 88.55 rather than 38.67 — apply the cholesterol factor here and the answer comes out 2.3 times too high. This converts units. It does not interpret results, does not compare your value against a reference interval, and is not a substitute for the clinician who ordered the test — reference intervals differ between laboratories, methods and populations.