wouldnt worry too much about the "level" tested in a doctors mate. the accepted level was made up by a board of 9 doctors, 8 of which brought cholesteral drugs (statin drugs) to the market.
The had a vested interest in selling the drugs therefore they came up with a common level of cholesteral that most people have, its all about sales and making money.
quote from here:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-mercola/the-cholesterol-myth-that_b_676817.html Fortunately, in 2006 a review in the Annals of Internal Medicine
[viii] found that there is insufficient evidence to support the target numbers outlined by the panel. The authors of the review were unable to find research providing evidence that achieving a specific LDL target level was important in and of itself, and found that the studies attempting to do so suffered from major flaws.
Several of the scientists who helped develop the guidelines even admitted that the scientific evidence supporting the less-than-70 recommendation was not very strong.
So how did these excessively low cholesterol guidelines come about?
Eight of the nine doctors on the panel that developed the new cholesterol guidelines had been making money from the drug companies that manufacture statin cholesterol-lowering drugs
.[ix] The same drugs that the new guidelines suddenly created a huge new market for in the United States.
Coincidence? I think not.