Testing Kid’s Cholesterol
Posted on by Douglas Farrago MD
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The idea is NOT to give kids statins. The last recommendation I saw was medication would be recommended if the LDL cholesterol was > 190. That’s the LDL cholesterol, not the TOTAL cholesterol. I think I’ve seen that about TWICE in a quarter century. The idea is to give extra encouragement for parents to get their kids on a better diet, and to be aware of the child’s tendency toward high cholesterol. I don’t know if this is the right approach – I can see problems. (For example, will we be inadvertantly implying that Johnny is OK with the 100 grams of sat fat/day, while brother Jimmy needs to eat only salads w/o dressing?) But this is NOT a push to give kids statins.
I believe in their good intentions. I do. But this is how bad things start. The answer, obviously, is to fix our diets. That is a whole other topic but what doctor can NOT give meds if little Johnny continues to have high LDL? And you know, as well as I do, that he will. And by the way, we never really saw type 2 DM in this age group either. Thanks for your thoughts, Dana!