{"id":713366,"date":"2026-07-27T10:05:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T10:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/713366\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T10:05:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T10:05:08","slug":"guernsey-pilot-finds-107-undiagnosed-high-cholesterol-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/713366\/","title":{"rendered":"Guernsey pilot finds 107 undiagnosed high cholesterol cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A four-month health pilot found 107 undiagnosed cases of high cholesterol and 65 of islanders with high blood pressure. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Public health services in partnership with Guernsey Chest and Heart LBG said the trial, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cvg3y5nj5w7o\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ran between September and December 2025<\/a>, tested 265 islanders across 38 clinics in community and workplace settings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The States of Guernsey said the project aimed to help people identify key risk factors of cardiovascular disease so they could take action before serious illness developed. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Caroline Ogier, CEO at Guernsey Chest and Heart LBG, said making checks outside of health facilities reached people that might otherwise have not been screened.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said: &#8220;People followed up with their GP, some started treatment, and many made positive changes to their lifestyle. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;That&#8217;s exactly what prevention is about &#8211; giving people the information, confidence and support to take control of their health before cardiovascular disease develops.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A four-month health pilot found 107 undiagnosed cases of high cholesterol and 65 of islanders with high blood&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":713367,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-713366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=713366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/713367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=713366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=713366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=713366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}