CDC: Testing for Cholesterol

Key points Cholesterol statistics From 2017 to 2020, 86.4 million US adults age 20 or older had high or borderline high cholesterol (a total cholesterol level greater than or equal to 200 mg/dL). From 2009 to 2016, about 1 in 5 adolescents had an unhealthy cholesterol measurement. Because high cholesterol doesn’t have symptoms, many people […]