What's Next? Starting Children on Drugs the Moment They're Born?

 

'That seems to be the path a new recommendation is putting us on.'

'An expert panel appointed by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, and endorsed by the American Academy of Pediatrics, is now urging cholesterol screening for all children between ages 9 and 11 - before puberty, when cholesterol temporarily dips - and again between ages 17 and 21. News accounts discuss a family who put their daughter on cholesterol-lowering medicines when she was 5 ("that gives me hope that she'll be healthy") and a doctor at Johns Hopkins who thinks his 12-year-old son should be tested "because he has a cousin with very high 'bad' cholesterol."'


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