1 Individuals with triglyceride levels of greater than 400 mg/dL.  LDL Cholesterol Direct is not affected by fasting status. However, if a calculation method is used the patient must be fasting for tests used in the calculation; i.e., triglycerides.
Byronic hero. The Byronic hero is a variant of the Romantic hero as a type of character, named after the English Romantic poet Lord Byron. Both Byron's life and writings have been considered in different ways to exemplify the type.
''Don Juan,'' his masterpiece, shows how determined he was to keep them apart. The hero, a genial, comically fictional self-projection, is the antithesis of the demonically transgressive Don Juans of European tradition. Byron's Juan shares with the others his irresistibility to female admirers, but nothing else.