The UCSF lipid clinic provide the full range of diagnostic and treatment services for adults and children with cholesterol and triglyceride disorders. Our Pediatric Lipid Clinic, established in 1971, focuses on diagnosing genetic disorders of lipid metabolism and managing them to prevent heart disease and stroke.

The clinic works with each patient to achieve normal lipid levels through a combination of diet modification, exercise and carefully prescribed lipid-lowering medications. Since our clinic's inception, we've made major contributions to diagnostic methods and treatments of lipid disorders. We're also at the forefront of clinical and basic research that aims to better understand lipid disorders and atherosclerosis, or hardening of the arteries. This includes the important discovery of a number of genes that are associated with coronary heart disease and stroke.