1.   Recently, Boots the Chemist started selling home cholesterol tests.

2.   Critics claim that a cholesterol test is only a single snapshot of lifestyle and can be misleading.

3.   By contrast, the way cholesterol tests are commonly done, medical workers draw a test tube of blood and send it to a lab to be analyzed.

4.   Measurements can vary based on what you eat just before a cholesterol test.

5.   No wonder Dr. Atkins recommends regular check-ups and cholesterol tests.

6.   The Lake Forest, Ill., firm has developed a mail-in cholesterol test and plans to soon market a test that will screen for thyroid disease.

7.   The serum that remains is what is used in cholesterol tests.

8.   To screen for heart disease, doctors are more likely to start with cholesterol tests.

9.   Cholesterol tests and blood pressure readings are cheaper and also tell doctors what they should treat, Krumholz said.

10.   They conducted a series of tests, ranging from blood sugar to cholesterol tests, weight and height measurements, general check-ups as well as nutritional counselling.