Both Nonfasting and Fasting LDL Equally Predict Mortality

Both Nonfasting and Fasting LDL  Equally Predictive of  Mortality 

There has always been an issue as to whether patients need to fast before having their cholesterol levels measured? A new analysis suggests maybe not, with researchers reporting that nonfasting LDL-cholesterol levels provide equivalent prognostic value to fasting LDL-cholesterol levels.

Using data from the National Health and Nutrition Survey III (NHANES III), lead investigator Dr Bethany Doran (New York University School of Medicine, NY) and colleagues found that higher nonfasting and fasting LDL-cholesterol levels were associated with an increased risk of all-cause and cardiovascular mortality and that both yielded similar results for the prediction of mortality.

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