Screen Your Toddler For Cholesterol- “Dr’s Orders”

Get your child’s cholesterol checked! That is what they are suggesting now. Researchers are urging parents to have their children’s cholesterol checked as early as 15 months.

Researchers at Barts and the London Queen Mary’s School of Medicine and Dentistry found that screening was most effective if done between the ages of 1 and 9. They said the screening at this age detected 88 percent of affected individuals.

Once an “affected” child is identified, the parents would then be screened. This could ultimately help in the medical prevention and treatment of the child and the adult. Killing 2 birds with 1 stone! I am all for it.

There is blood work done routinely in children of this age anyway, might as well add a cholesterol panel to the blood work as well! Doesn’t hurt anything. What do you think? Would you screen your child for cholesterol?

via Science Daily