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The association of lipid within diseased arteries and lipids circulating in the blood seemed to be obvious from the earliest investigations of arterial disease especially from the advantageous hindsight offered to anatomic pathologists. The relevance of elevated blood cholesterol early in life to a disease that seemed to appear much later was a concept, however, that would have been unexplorable by these early metabolic epidemiologists. In the article the authors concentrate on what might have been earlier looked upon as technical issues, but which now they realize are vital to the ultimate reduction of cardiovascular disease. These include the appropriate methods for identifying children with hypercholesterolemia through screening, the diagnostic tests that must be made before treatment, and the continued evaluation of children with elevated cholesterol.
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