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 ...

The practice of lipid screening in children still hasn't taken off despite guideline recommendations to do so as early as age 9 years, according to a large cross-sectional study. U.S. records show ...

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 ...

A new study finds that current guidelines for cholesterol screening in children may miss nearly 10% of those who have high levels of LDL, or bad cholesterol. The question of how soon children should ...

New guidelines recommend routine cholesterol screening for adults starting around age 20. Children should be screened for inherited high cholesterol between the ages of 9 and 11. The guidelines ...

An Australian researcher says we should consider cholesterol screening earlier in life, with his team's latest research showing that interventions to prevent and reduce "bad" cholesterol in childhood ...

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 ...

If your doctor has ever told you to "keep an eye on your numbers," here's good news: The rules around what's considered high ...

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 ...

“Bad,” or LDL, cholesterol is a major risk factor for heart disease and most people are screened for it as part of their yearly physicals. There’s another marker in the blood that may be a better ...