Clin Lipidology. 2013;8(4):425-436. Deciding whether or not lipid screening in youth offers high value is perhaps more difficult to evaluate than the cost–effectiveness. If an abnormal result ...

If your pediatric patient is overweight and has a family history of high cholesterol or heart disease, it may be worth screening for familial hypercholesterolemia (FH). FH is an inherited disorder ...

Guidelines disagree on whether children should be screened to identify familial hypercholesterolemia, which is associated with high LDL cholesterol and increased heart disease risk. This modeling ...

WASHINGTON — New and aggressive preventative screening guidance aims to identify and treat cholesterol risks well before it could lead to heart disease. The new guidance was released Friday by the ...

Generally speaking, it's a good idea to get your cholesterol checked every five years. But some people—including those with ...

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 ...

The American Heart Association and American College of Cardiology have released 2026 guidelines recommending cholesterol screening and intervention much earlier in life. The update replaces the 2018 ...

A joint committee of eleven major U.S. medical organizations has released a new guideline on managing dyslipidemia that recommends earlier cholesterol screening and updated tools for measuring ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A quality improvement initiative significantly improved lipid screening among children. The initiative’s ...

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 ...