New cholesterol guidelines emphasize earlier screening and treatment

EAST LANSING, Mich. (WILX) -New cholesterol guidelines are changing how doctors think about heart disease risk, with a bigger focus on earlier screening and earlier treatment.

Michigan State’s Dr. Charles Hong helped shape the research behind that shift.

He says too often, high cholesterol is treated like a late-in-life issue when the damage can start building much earlier…

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