Evaluation of dyslipidemia in children.
Paying attention to cholesterol at a young age will prevent future atherosclerosis. Clinicians must teach parents that by making the necessary nutritional and lifestyle changes, they can prevent or lower their child's risk for heart disease, hypertension, and diabetes. Recognition of the occasional child with a genetic dyslipidemia will allow more aggressive lipid-lowering treatment at an age when atherosclerosis is first developing.
Zappalla
Frances R
FR
Nemours Cardiac Center, Wilmington, DE 19899, USA. fzappall@nemours.org
D001161:Arteriosclerosis / Q000517:prevention & control; D002648:Child; D050171:Dyslipidemias / Q000097:blood / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000209:etiology / Q000517:prevention & control; D006801:Humans; D008055:Lipids / Q000097:blood; D008074:Lipoproteins / Q000097:blood
D008055:Lipids; D008074:Lipoproteins