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If you are fasting, youâll most likely be told not to eat for eight to 12 hours before your test. For this reason, cholesterol tests are often scheduled in the morning. A test that measures all of the different types of cholesterol levels is called a total lipid profile.
Before taking a cholesterol test, adults are typically told to fast for up to 12 hours or else levels in the bloodstream may be skewed by the recent meal. A new study, however, finds fasting may not be necessary after all. The study, published Nov. 12 in the Archives of Internal Medicine, found the amount of time a person spent fasting prior to a cholesterol test had little impact on the end results. This finding suggests that fasting for routine lipid level determinations is largely unnecessary, wrote the authors.