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Monitoring Cholesterol Levels: Understanding Variance and Finding the Most Useful Data
- Liu Hong, PhD;
- Kaichun Wu, PhD; and
- Daiming Fan, PhD
- From Institute of Digestive Diseases, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an 710032, China.
TO THE EDITOR:
As Glasziou and colleagues (1) report, after the initial decrease in cholesterol level in response to treatment, subsequent cholesterol level monitoring may be much less frequent than is currently recommended. They show that much of current testing will detect only false-positive results, which are related to either …
