On Tue, 20 Jan 1998, John C. Pavao wrote:

> I went to CVS pharmacy (local chain) to get one of those kits a few months
> after I started the Atkins diet.  They were gone.  I asked the pharmacist.
>  He said that the store had stopped selling them because they had been
> proven to be wildly inaccurate.  Maybe you got a different kind, but if
> you're concerned, it wouldn't hurt to get a real lab test done...

There are at least two kinds of home test kits.  One is by
Johnson&JOhnson; the other is called Cholestrak.  I think it is
the J&J model that was criticized.  The last time I checked, the
Cholestrak kits were still considered to be accurate.

Todd Moody
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