Clin Lipidology. 2013;8(4):425-436. The recommendation to screen all children once between the age of 9 and 11 years and again between the age of 17 and 21 years represents the most significant and ...

Only 11.3% of US youths aged 9-21 years are screened for lipid levels, with nearly one in three showing abnormal results. The prevalence of screening increases with age and body mass index (BMI), but ...

Screening for heterozygous familial hypercholesterolemia in childhood or early adulthood wouldn't come close to being cost-effective, despite reducing lifetime cardiovascular disease (CVD) events such ...

The German Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG) was commissioned by the Federal Joint Committee (G-BA) to assess the benefit of universal blood lipid screening for the early ...

New cholesterol guidelines advise doctors to begin screening and treating people in their 30s, long before the risks of a heart attack and stroke become significantly higher. For the first time, the ...

New guidelines for managing cholesterol call for more aggressive prevention and earlier treatment, including a recommendation that all adults be tested once for lipoprotein(a), a genetic risk marker ...

If you are concerned about your risk of developing cardiovascular disease, you’ll usually get a specific blood test to look at your cholesterol levels to see where things stand. At least, that’s how ...

Cholesterol - the good, the bad and the combined - is essential for our overall health. It plays a key role in digesting fatty foods, making vitamin D and producing hormones amongst other things. But ...

New cholesterol guidelines advise doctors to begin screening and treating people in their 30s, long before the risks of a heart attack and stroke become significantly higher. For the first time, the ...