Dr. Róisín Colleran
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first heard Jul 2026
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It has.
I mean, there's a move towards, I suppose, earlier recognition of high cholesterol in order that we can treat it earlier.
There's more of a thinking about lifetime risk rather than, I suppose, reacting to events like heart attacks or people needing stents, angina.
stroke, and I suppose identifying it earlier.
So these guidelines recommend that people have their cholesterol checked by the age of 20 now, which is very new.
We never really had a defined age cut off before.
But I guess there are certain inherited disorders where people can have high cholesterol.
There are families where they have very elevated cardiovascular risk.
And I guess if you're only checking that for the first time in your 40s, these people often have plaque already in their coronary or cerebral arteries.
Well, so there is, I suppose, a pretty rare condition called familial hyperlipidemia.
And that's where people have crazy high cholesterol levels and their tens are above.
And that's something that people inherit and will have from childhood.
So if you check a two-year-old's cholesterol, it can be very high.
And that's a different thing.
It's rare, but really... And does it do them harm?
It's funny, for a lot of families it will, but there are certain families that you will meet that have this condition who don't seem to manifest cardiovascular disease.
So for the most part, yes, but the odd family won't.
Absolutely.
So when I ask somebody their cholesterol level, they'll often tell me 6.2.
And that's OK.
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