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Provides clinicians a consolidated AHA guideline reference for cholesterol management; reinforces consensus while leaving open needs for updated trials.
American Heart Association Prevention I Conference dealt exclusively with issues related to blood cholesterol level and disease.' The AHA has endorsed a number of national recommendations and guidelines in this area, including the Adult Treatment Panel Guidelines on the Detection, Evalua- tion, and Treatment of High Blood Cholesterol in Adults,2 the Report of the Expert Panel on Population Strategies for Blood Cholesterol Reduction,3 the Re- port for the Laboratory Standardization Panel of the National Cholesterol Education Program,4 the Report of the Expert Panel on Blood Cholesterol Levels in Children and Adolescents,5 and the joint American Heart Association-National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute report on cholesterol lowering in patients with established heart disease.6 A recent National Institutes of Health consensus conference focused on triglycerides, high-density lipoproteins, and coronary heart dis-
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