Journal article
Monitoring cholesterol levels: measurement error or true change?
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BACKGROUND: Cholesterol level monitoring is a common clinical activity, but the optimal monitoring interval is unknown and practice varies. OBJECTIVE: To estimate, in patients receiving cholesterol-lowering medication, the variation in initial response to treatment, the long-term drift from initial response, and the detectability of long-term changes in on-treatment cholesterol level ("signal") given short-term, within-person variation ("noise"). DESIGN: Analysis of cholesterol measurement d...
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- Journal:
- Annals of internal medicine
- Volume:
- 148
- Issue:
- 9
- Pages:
- 656-661
- Publication date:
- 2008-05-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1539-3704
- ISSN:
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0003-4819
- Source identifiers:
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215807
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- English
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- Pubs id:
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- Local pid:
- pubs:215807
- Deposit date:
- 2012-12-19
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- Copyright date:
- 2008
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