Sharing a glossary of health checkup report terms I put together

I get a checkup every year, and I kept getting confused every time I looked at the results, so last year I just organized them once and for all. I'm sharing this in case there are people like me who look them up every time. Of course, you should get the actual interpretation from your doctor.

• ALT/AST: Liver enzyme levels. Gamma-GTP (GGT) tends to be heavily influenced by alcohol.
• You shouldn't look at total cholesterol alone; you need to look at LDL/HDL together. Triglycerides are heavily influenced by diet.
• Fasting blood sugar of 100–125 is "impaired fasting glucose" (not normal; prediabetes).
• Blood pressure often goes up from nerves at the hospital, so home blood pressure readings are more accurate.
• Thyroid TSH/T3/T4 should be looked at as a set. If only one is out of range, get retested.
• Urine occult blood or proteinuria can also be affected by your condition that day, so they're often rechecked at the next checkup.

Last year my triglycerides came back slightly high, so I exercised and cut out late-night snacks for about 3 months and got retested, and they returned to normal. I found it's better to check your checkup results as they come rather than putting them off until the next year.

Have you all gotten your checkup this year?