What is the role of the clinical laboratory in the new ACC/AHA guidelines for the treatment of blood cholesterol in adults?

American Journal of Clinical Pathology

Volumn 141, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 772-773

  Jialal, Ishwarlal ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; APOLIPOPROTEIN B; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CHOLESTEROL; CREATINE KINASE; HEMOGLOBIN A1C; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ADULT; ALBUMINURIA; AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY; ATHEROSCLEROTIC CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHOLESTASIS; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CLINICAL LABORATORY; EDITORIAL; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPOTHYROIDISM; LIPID ANALYSIS; MEDICAL SOCIETY; NEPHROTIC SYNDROME; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ADULT; AGED; AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION; CARDIOLOGY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CHOLESTEROL; HUMANS; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL-COA REDUCTASE INHIBITORS; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; LABORATORIES; MIDDLE AGED; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84904480222     PISSN: 00029173     EISSN: 19437722     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1309/AJCPED9X7RNMYAEQ     Document Type: Editorial

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