Kiddie Cholesterol: Would You Put Your Child on a Statin Drug?

By Theresa Tamkins

My daughter, Veronica, is 6. She loves to dance, is a budding gymnast, and hates that she’s the tiniest girl in her class. She also has high cholesterol. A recent test found that her total cholesterol rivals that of a 50-year-old man’s—206 mg/dl.

Apparently, she’s not alone. The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) is so concerned about high cholesterol in kids that they issued new guidelines on Monday—the first in more than a decade on kids and cholesterol. The guidelines are in the July issue of the journal Pediatrics. Read More