ESR stands for erythocytic sedimentation rate. ESR is a indicator or index for doctors to decide on how bad is the infection. In certain acute or generally all chronic infections ESR undergoes an elevation. The normal value is 0 – 20 mm per hour. It generally can rise upto any level depending on how viral or how deep seated the infection is. Now it is seen in all kinds of urinary infections and all kinds of fever. In lipid profile, for a lipid profile not to be in place, if you have any liver pathology because of which the lipid profile is bad, then it can be. Other than that, these are two separate indices of measurement. A lipid profile consists of measurement of cholesterol, measurement of triglycerides and this, it has less to do with ESR. There can be a coincidental condition in the same patient, wherein he has an elevated lipid profile, and also he has an elevated ESR. But yes, there are a group of conditions in which the liver has any infection, in which you will have the emulsification of fat is being interfered with. So the lipid profile is bad and the ESR is high because of a raging infection. But otherwise in lipid profile elevations, ESR has no role to play.

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