Enter the LDL cholesterol, total cholesterol and HDL from your lab report. The page returns the gap between your LDL and the goal for your risk category, the percentage reduction that gap represents, your non-HDL value (total minus HDL) and how it compares with the non-HDL secondary goal. If you do not know your risk category, all four are shown in one table.
The goals are taken unchanged from the ESC/EAS 2019 dyslipidaemia guideline (as of October 2026). LDL goals are below 55 mg/dL for very high risk, 70 for high risk, 100 for moderate risk and 116 for low risk. The non-HDL secondary goal is the LDL goal plus 30: below 85, 100 and 130 mg/dL for very high, high and moderate risk. High and very high risk also carry a recommendation of at least a 50% reduction from baseline, so the lower of the two targets is shown. ACC/AHA works from a different framework and uses 70 mg/dL as a threshold for adding non-statin therapy in very high risk patients.
Your risk category is assigned by a clinician who weighs every risk factor you carry. This page does not estimate it; it only compares your numbers with the goals for the category you pick, and a non-HDL goal for low risk is not confirmed in an authoritative source. The page does not accept mmol/L input, so the mmol/L figures published alongside each goal are shown in brackets instead. None of this is a diagnosis or a treatment decision. Starting or changing lipid-lowering medicine is decided by a clinician who sees your full results and other conditions.
Frequently asked questions
Leave the selector on "Not sure" and the table lists all four categories with their LDL goals, the gap from your current value and the reduction needed. Only a clinician can tell you which category applies to you.
It is total cholesterol minus HDL. The European guideline particularly recommends looking at non-HDL in people with high triglycerides, diabetes or obesity, and in people whose LDL is very low.
It is the gap to the goal divided by your current LDL, shown to one decimal place. If you are already below the goal it reads 0.0%. For high and very high risk the separate recommendation of at least a 50% cut from baseline also applies, so the lower of the two targets is worth checking.