Fasting before blood lipid testing might be unnecessary
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Fasting may be unnecessary for lipid testing
At present, the majority of guidelines recommend a fasting serum lipid test. This recommendation is based on achieving consistency between patients and over multiple tests by ensuring a relatively standardised metabolic state. It is also because the majority of research has been performed using fasting lipids, therefore it was assumed that making comparisons and analysing risk would be less pre...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nature Reviews Cardiology
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1759-5002,1759-5010
DOI: 10.1038/nrcardio.2014.107