Fasting before lipid tests 'unnecessary'
15th November 2012
Fasting has only minimal impact on cholesterol levels and could be scrapped as a prerequisite for most routine lipid tests, a study suggests.
Canadian researchers found there was less than 2% variation in mean total cholesterol and HDL levels between people who had fasted before testing and those who hadn’t.
LDL levels varied by about 10%, whereas triglyceride levels varied the most at around 20%.
“This finding suggests that
