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For decades, fasting for 8 to 12 hours prior to blood draw has been the recommended guideline for measurement of lipid profiles.  But does fasting have a clinically significant outcome on the results of lipid level measurement in patients?

To streamline the exchange of clinical and nonclinical research data and ensure uniformity across studies submitted to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC), has developed data exchange standards to streamline clinical research and enable connections to healthcare.