Nightly News | November 11, 2011
Panel: Test kids for cholesterol by age 11
An expert panel of doctors recommends that every child in America should be tested for high cholesterol between the ages of nine and 11. NBC’s Savannah Guthrie reports.
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This content comes from Closed Captioning that was broadcast along with this program.
>> an expert panel of doctors is out with a new recommendation tonight that every child in america should be tested for high cholesterol between the ages of 9 and 11. the panel says as many as 13% of children have high cholesterol counts by the time they are in the 4th grade . critics worry the recommendation will lead to treatment of very young children with powerful cholesterol-lowering drugs with no information on how it might affect them over the long term.