Monitoring Cholesterol Levels: Understanding Variance and Finding the Most Useful Data
- William E. Cayley, MD, MDiv
- From University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI 53705.
TO THE EDITOR:
The study by Glasziou and colleagues (1) finds that “noise” random variations during serial cholesterol level monitoring may be greater than the change in cholesterol levels due to a therapeutic effect. This points to the importance of what exactly has been tested …
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