Prevention of Atherosclerosis: A Pediatric Problem

If intervention to modify coronary risk factors is put off till adulthood, it may well prove ineffective; pathologic studies have shown that by the third decade many Americans already have advanced lesions in the aorta and the coronary arteries. But can children at high risk be identified or must universal modification of way of life be undertaken? A long-term study aimed at answering this question is now under way.