TY  - JOUR
T1  - Fasting for lipid testing: Is it worth the trouble?: comment on “fasting time and lipid levels in a community-based population”
AU  - Khera AV, Mora S
Y1  - 2012/12/10
N1  - 10.1001/2013.jamainternmed.263
JO  - Archives of Internal Medicine
SP  - 1710
EP  - 1711
VL  - 172
IS  - 22
N2  - 
Lipid testing plays a major role in cardiovascular risk stratification and the assessment of lipid responses to clinical interventions. Current guidelines suggest that blood samples for lipid profiles should be obtained after a 9- to 12-hour fast.1 This requirement is not always practical for patients, who rarely present to health care providers in a fasting state. Patients often expend additional resources to return to a laboratory while fasting, and some may forgo coming back altogether. A report by Sidhu and Naugler in this issue challenges the necessity of fasting before blood collection.2

SN  - 0003-9926
M3  - doi: 10.1001/2013.jamainternmed.263
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/2013.jamainternmed.263
ER  -