Millions May Be Getting Wrong Cholesterol Test, Study Warns

Millions of patients may be at undetected cardiovascular risk due to inadequate testing, potentially delaying necessary preventive interventions.

For decades, millions of patients have left routine checkups reassured by cholesterol numbers that may tell only part of the story. A recent study suggests that standard lipid panels, long embedded in the rhythms of American healthcare, may be missing the very markers — specifically apolipoprotein B — that most accurately predict heart attack risk. It is a quiet crisis of measurement: not a failure of medicine's intentions, but of its habits. The question it raises is ancient and urgent — how much of what we trust is trusted simply because it is familiar?

Millions May Be Getting Wrong Cholesterol Test, Study Warns

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