NHLBI Expert Panel Releases Guidelines for Cardiovascular Health and Risk Reduction in ...
Oct 15, 2012 - Evidence indicates that reducing risk can slow the progression of cardiovascular disease (CVD); therefore, the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHBLI) Expert Panel on Integrated Guidelines for Cardiovascular Health and Risk Reduction in Children and Adolescents developed ...
American Family Physician : Practice Guidelines
https://www.aafp.org/afp/2012/1015/p776.html
AAP Clinical Report on Lipid Screening in Children - Practice Guidelines - American ...
Apr 15, 2009 - The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) released a clinical report in July 2008 that recommends lipid screening in children and adolescents with a fasting lipid profile, and focuses on improving childhood and adolescent lipid and lipoprotein concentrations to lower the lifetime risk of...
American Family Physician : Practice Guidelines
https://www.aafp.org/afp/2009/0415/p703.html
Should Family Physicians Routinely Screen for Hypercholesterolemia in Children? Yes: ...
Oct 15, 2012 - Yes: The Evidence Supports Universal Screening. Atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease events are the culmination of a process that has clearly been shown to begin in childhood, with accumulation of abnormal lipids in the vascular intima.
American Family Physician : Editorials: Controversies in Family Medicine
https://www.aafp.org/afp/2012/1015/od2.html
Editorials: Controversies in Family Medicine - Oct 15, 2012 - American Family Physician
Oct 15, 2012 - No: Universal Screening Has Uncertain Benefits and a High Risk of Harms. Atherosclerosis can be demonstrated in young arteries, and its development over time correlates with the presence of risk factors for the disease, including higher lipid levels. But the presence of this association...
American Family Physician : Editorials: Controversies in Family Medicine
https://www.aafp.org/afp/2012/1015/od1.html
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