Tag Archives: Cholesterol

November 2022—The evidence in favor of measuring apolipoprotein B routinely, with other lipid parameters, is now so overwhelming, says cardiologist Allan Sniderman, MD, that he believes it’s unreasonable to deny patients the advantage of apoB. “If evidence is what counts,” he says, “then the care Americans receive should include apoB.”

October 2020—For nearly five decades, clinicians and laboratories aiming to screen LDL cholesterol (LDL-C) in adults to assess cardiovascular disease risk have contended with a problem generally beyond their control: lack of assurance that patients told to fast before a blood specimen is collected for lipid testing have indeed fasted.