Fasting is not routinely required for determination of a lipid profile: clinical and laboratory implications including flagging at desirable concentration cut-points-a joint consensus statement from the European Atherosclerosis Society and European Federation of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

Nordestgaard, B.G.; Langsted, A.; Mora, S.; Kolovou, G.; Baum, H.; Bruckert, E.; ... ; European Federation Clinical Chem (2016)

Article / Letter to editor

Conclusion We recommend that non-fasting blood samples be routinely used for the assessment of plasma lipid profiles. Laboratory reports should flag abnormal values on the basis of desirable concentration cut-points. Non-fasting and fasting measurements should be complementary but not mutually exclusive.

• Lipids
• Lipoproteins
• Cardiovascular disease
• Stroke
• Reference values
• Normal values

• All authors: Nordestgaard, B.G.; Langsted, A.; Mora, S.; Kolovou, G.; Baum, H.; Bruckert, E.; Watts, G.F.; Sypniewska, G.; Wiklund, O.; Boren, J.; Chapman, M.J.; Cobbaert, C.; Descamps, O.S.; Eckardstein, A. von; Kamstrup, P.R.; Pulkki, K.; Kronenberg, F.; Remaley, A.T.; Rifai, N.; Ros, E.; Langlois, M.; European Atherosclerosis Soc EAS; European Federation Clinical Chem
• Date: 2016-07-01
• Journal: European Heart Journal
• Volume: 37
• Issue: 25
• Pages: 1944 - 1958
• DOI: doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehw152