Daily Archives: May 1, 2016 New guidelines – fasting before a cholesterol test is no longer necessary 1 May, 2016 | 19:27h | UTC 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 (free) New guidelines simplify cholesterol tests: no fasting needed – STAT commentary (free)