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

Abstract

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.

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• Brigham and Women's Hospital US
• Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center GR
• Harvard University US
• Copenhagen University Hospital DK
• Boston Children's Hospital US
• Sorbonne Université FR
• Leiden University Medical Center NL
• Hôpital de Jolimont BE
• Innsbruck Medical University AT
• Collegium Medicum in Bydgoszcz PL
• The University of Western Australia AU
• University of Copenhagen DK
• Ghent University Hospital BE
• National Institutes of Health US
• Hospital Clínic de Barcelona ES
• Inserm FR
• University of Eastern Finland FI
• Gentofte Hospital DK
• University Hospital of Zurich CH
• AZ Sint-Jan BE
• Sahlgrenska University Hospital SE
• Instituto de Salud Carlos III ES
• National Heart Lung and Blood Institute US
• Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital FR
• Universität Innsbruck AT

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