Failure of current guidelines for cholesterol screening in urban African-American adolescents

Pediatrics

Volumn 98, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 383-388

  Rifai, Nader ^a   Neufeld, Ellis ^a   Ahlstrom, Promise ^c   Rimm, Eric ^b   D'Angelo, Lawrence ^c   Hicks, Jocelyn M ^c  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

adolescents; African Americans; cholesterol screening

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN B; CHOLESTEROL; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL;

ACCURACY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; HEART DISEASE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SCREENING;

ADOLESCENT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; APOLIPOPROTEINS B; CHOLESTEROL; DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA; FEMALE; GUIDELINES; HUMANS; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; MALE; MASS SCREENING; PEDIATRICS; PROGRAM EVALUATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 0029794690     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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