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Child health experts children should be regularly screened for cholesterol . New guidelines from America’s National Institutes of Health recommend the screening of kids the ages of 9 and 11. Doctors say with increasing obesity in children, it is essential that steps are taken to make kids of their health. They say identifying high cholesterol early can prevent heart disease on in life. Around 15 per cent of U.S. kids are overweight or ; a figure that rises to 30 per cent for teenagers. Over ten per cent of children in America have high cholesterol. The test is very – just a finger prick blood sample can tell doctors which children are most at .

Dr Stephen Daniels of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute and one of the of the guidelines explained the of starting a screening programme: "The more we about heart disease and stroke in adults, the more we that the begins in childhood and progresses over time," he said. He believes the guidelines will help children who genetically are at a higher risk of having high cholesterol. Dr Daniels added: "We as pediatricians really to get kids started on the right and keep them in as low a risk category as possible." The guidelines recommend ways to the heart’s health. They say mothers should start with breast-feeding and introduce a low-fat for babies.