To the Editor: Dr Bansal and colleagues1 observed that nonfasting triglyceride levels were more predictive of future cardiovascular risk than fasting triglyceride levels in healthy women. Studies of postprandial lipemia have shown a strong dependence of postprandial triglyceride levels on the level of fasting triglycerides.2 Postprandial triglyceride concentration can be viewed as incorporating to some degree the fasting level as well; it effectively constitutes a composite index of lipemia of both the fasting and nonfasting states.