Does the addition of lipid measurements to traditional clinic-based risk factors in adolescence improve the prediction of preclinical atherosclerosis (high cIMT) in adulthood?
Adding lipid measurements to traditional risk factors in youth provides only a modest clinical improvement in predicting adult preclinical atherosclerosis.
Nonlaboratory-based risk factors and lipids measured in adolescence independently predicted preclinical atherosclerosis in young adulthood. The addition of lipid measurements to traditional clinic-based risk factor assessment provided a statistically significant but clinically modest improvement on adolescent prediction of high cIMT in adulthood.
Koskinen et al. (Thu,) studied this question.