Internal Medicine Resources

Third Report on Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Cholesterol in Adults
NCEP, which is coordinated by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), develops new guidelines as warranted by research advances. Earlier guidelines were issued in 1988 and 1993. An executive summary of the new guidelines, the “Third Report of the NCEP Expert Panel on Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Cholesterol in Adults,” also known as Adult Treatment Panel (ATP) III, appears in the May 16, 2001, issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Body Mass Index (BMI)  
Body Mass Index (BMI) is a popular tool currently used by health professionals to screen individuals for their degree of obesity. It is based upon a relationship between weight and height, excluding frame size and muscle mass.