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Does anyone test their cholesterol levels at home?
How reliable do you find it?
Can people recommend any kit for this?
How reliable do you find it?
Can people recommend any kit for this?
donnellysdogs said:So what happens if your GP's have big signs up in the waiting rooms telling you that they don't do cholesterol tests and tell people that they must go to get ones from the chemists??? Can a GP do this? (legally??)-don't foprget I live west of the english border!!!!
Thursday 13 August 2009
It is estimated that up to 6,000 people in Wales have Familial hypercholesterolaemia but as many as 4,800 may be unaware they have the potentially life-threatening condition.
Familial hypercholesterolaemia – or FH - is an inherited condition which causes high levels of cholesterol from birth, and if untreated, leads to coronary heart disease and heart attacks in young adults.
The Welsh Assembly Government in partnership with the British Heart Foundation is funding the roll-out of a screening programme to find people at risk of the condition.