The authors wish to acknowledge that this study was funded by the National Lipid Association.

Jerome Cohen is a member of the speaker’s bureau of Abbott Laboratories, Abbott Park, Illinois; He has been a consultant for Bayer and Merck. Mark Cziraky, Qian Cai, Anna Wallace and Thomas Wasser, do not receive consulting fees from pharmaceutical industry however HealthCore Inc., Wilmington, Delaware, has as its core business, contracting for research funding with the pharmaceutical industry. Terry Jacobson has been a consultant for Abbott, AstraZeneca, Wilmington, Delaware; GlaxoSmithKline, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina; Merck/Schering-Plough, Whitehouse Station, New Jersey; and Schering-Plough, Kenilworth, New Jersey. John Crouse has received consulting fees from Merck/Schering-Plough, AstraZeneca, Reliant, and Johnson & and Johnson, New Brunswick, New Jersey. He is a member of the speaker’s bureau of AstraZeneca.