A panel appointed by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute is recommending that all children between the ages of 9 and 11 be screened for high cholesterol. As the WSJ has reported, heart disease begins to develop in childhood even if its major consequences — such as heart attacks — don’t generally occur until decades later. Research has found that risk factors including high cholesterol, if present at about age 9, can predict the thickening of neck-artery walls in early adulthood.-Chanmun Jeong
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