New guidelines due out this weekend are expected to recommend that more children get a screening test for high cholesterol before they reach puberty.Perfect.
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Guidelines from a leading pediatrics group now advise screening just kids with a family history of early heart disease or risk factors such as obesity and high blood pressure. But many doctors feel that is missing too many kids with high cholesterol.
The guidelines, from experts appointed by the federal government, will be presented at an American Heart Association conference on Sunday.
They've gotten all the adults on statins, then lowered the baseline as much as they possibly can, so now they're going after children to get more customers. Go figure.
This is borderline malpractice. There is no evidence that serum cholesterol levels predict heart disease, and certainly none for children.
For the record, the last I looked, the American Heart Association website had NO information regarding periodontal disease or infectious causes of atherosclerosis. NONE.
Why aren't they teaching kids how to properly care for their mouths?
