National Cholesterol Education Program

The National Cholesterol Education Program ( NCEP ) is a program that was launched in 1985 by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, an institute of the National Institutes of Health ( NIH ) of the United States to life. Its aim is to reduce, in his opinion attributable to hypercholesterolemia increase in the proportion of cardiovascular disease and heart attacks in the U.S..

The stated goal of the NCEP is to observe the ongoing medical research on atherosclerosis and CHD and analyze in order to manufacture their recommendations, which are supported by the NIH, the American Heart Association and other medical societies and lay organizations and help to the atherosclerosis and cardiac disorders to reduce.

Critics see in the NCEP a lobby for the pharmaceutical industry.