Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Screening Blood Panels - Overused, Overtested

The Annals of Internal Medicine has reported that "frequent cholesterol measurement may be misleading." There are normal variations and fluctuations in any blood test that give erroneous information and frequent checking (even annually), when a person is stable on a cholesterol lowering drug, is pointless.Other studies have shown that the "routine" blood tests we Internists and Family Doctors