Screening for hypercholesterolaemia in primary care: randomised controlled trial of postal questionnaire appraising risk of coronary heart disease

Introduction Opportunistic approaches to screening for hypercholesterolaemia are widely advocated.[1-8] However, studies of this approach for hypercholesterolaemia,[9-11] cervical carcinoma,[10-18] breast cancer,[10-13 15-23] and hypertension[14 15 21] have repeatedly shown that [...]