Lack of Age-Appropriate Reference Intervals Causing Potentially Missed Alerts in Clinical Reports of Dyslipidemia

This study shows that only 12.5% of laboratory reports (2/16) included age-appropriate pediatric reference ranges for all lipid and lipoproteins. The use of erroneous reference range(s) could lead to missed alerts of dyslipidemia in up to 97.3% (total cholesterol), 93.6% (high-density lipoprotein ch...

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Veröffentlicht in:	The Journal of pediatrics 2023-01, Vol.252, p.208-212.e3
Hauptverfasser:	Sena, Cecilia, Ohene-Adjei, Michael, Deng, Shuliang, Patibandla, Nandan, May, Benjamin, de Ferranti, Sarah D., Starc, Thomas J., Thaker, Vidhu V.
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Adolescent Child Cholesterol, HDL Cholesterol, LDL Dyslipidemias - diagnosis Humans Nutrition Surveys Triglycerides
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