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Article: Dietary intervention improves cholesterol level: a low-fat diet is safe and effective, but if the child's LDL cholesterol level is very high, diet is not enough.(Clinical Rounds)
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- Pediatric News
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- December 1, 2005
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WASHINGTON -- Attention to diet will successfully manage cholesterol in many children, especially young ones, said Samuel S. Gidding, M.D., of the Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children in Wilmington, Del.
"Cholesterol levels are determined by genetics, plus or minus how bad your diet is," he noted at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Test cholesterol levels in all children at age 5 or 6 years, and again after puberty, he recommended.
Dr. Gidding, a pediatric cardiologist who has received research funding from AstraZeneca, explained that he rarely puts children younger than 10 years on lipid-lowering drugs, and almost ...