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Do home cholesterol tests work? (Up Front).(Brief Article)(Product/Service Evaluation)
Comprehensive cholesterol screening should be a regular part of your medical checkups. But should you also test cholesterol at home with a kit available from the pharmacy or via the Internet?
Our advice, after testing five widely sold kits: Don't bother.
Two were inaccurate. Three test only for total cholesterol and so provide less information than most people need. All require you to draw a relatively large amount of blood. And none save you much money
We compared the five kits with results from a hospital lab, using blood from staff volunteers. Here's what we found:
* The CholesTrak, First Check, and Home Access kits (the same kit from three companies) were judged good: all readings varied no more than 15 percent from those at the hospital. However, those three kits measure only total cholesterol, which isn't necessarily the most meaningful indicator. A full lipid profile, also measuring HDL ("good") cholesterol and ...
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