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NATURE REVIEWS CARDIOLOGY | RESEARCH HIGHLIGHT DYSLIPIDAEMIA Fasting before blood lipid testing might be unnecessary Nature Reviews Cardiology 11, 497 (2014) A new study indicates that measuring the level of LDL cholesterol in the blood of a patient who has not previously fasted has the same prognostic value as measuring it after fasting, as currently recommended in clinical guidelines. Fasting for 8–12 h before phlebotomy can be inconvenient for patients, and the new finding indicates that fasting might not provide a more-representative measure of particular lipid parameters (such as triglyceride level), as was previously thought. nature/nrcardio/journal/v11/n9/full/nrcardio.2014.107.html?WT.ec_id=NRCARDIO-201409
Posted on: Sat, 23 Aug 2014 01:46:03 +0000

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