Cholesterol screening?

To the Editor.— The paper by Drs Garcia and Moodie is the third article in the past 4 months to question the efficacy of family history as the first step in a screening strategy to identify children with hypercholesterolemia.1-3 Their finding that 50% of the children they identified with elevated lo...

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Published in:Pediatrics (Evanston) 1990-06, Vol.85 (6), p.1125-1126
Main Author: Dennison, B A
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Child
Cholesterol - blood
Humans
Hypercholesterolemia - prevention & control
Mass Screening
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Summary:To the Editor.— The paper by Drs Garcia and Moodie is the third article in the past 4 months to question the efficacy of family history as the first step in a screening strategy to identify children with hypercholesterolemia.1-3 Their finding that 50% of the children they identified with elevated low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol did not have a family history of premature cardiovascular disease or hyperlipidemia is essentially the same as that of Griffen and colleagues.2
ISSN:0031-4005
1098-4275
DOI:10.1542/peds.85.6.1125