Many of us heard on the nightly news that the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) released a new guideline for “cardiovascular health” recently (full paper at http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/site/misc/2009-2107.pdf). AAP’s much-ignored recommendation from 2008 to screen all preschool-age children has been replaced by a recommendation to screen all children at age 9-11, and then again at age [...]
