7. Acknowledgements

We are grateful to Andrea Quattini (Assistant Librarian, Schulich Library of Physical Sciences, Life Sciences, and Engineering McGill University, Montreal, Quebec) for her assistance in searching the medical literature for evidence to be reviewed and inform the recommendations for PICO question 1. We also thank Andre Mattman, MD, St Paul’s Hospital Medical Biochemistry Laboratory, Vancouver, British Columbia, Pierre Douville, MD, President of the Canadian Association of Medical Biochemists (CAMB) and Ted Dunn, PhD, President-Elect of the Canadian Society of Clinical Chemists (CSCC) for their survey on the availability of lipid/ lipoprotein tests and nonfasting lipid testing across jurisdictions in Canada. We are very grateful for the thoughtful feedback and comments provided by the members of the 2021 Lipids Secondary Review Panel members: Ranjani Aiyar, MD, Canadian Society of Internal Medicine, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; Alexis Baass, MD, Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; N. John Bosomworth, MD, College of Family Physicians of Canada, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada; Liam Brunham, MD, PhD, Centre for Heart Lung Innovation, Providence Health Care Research Institute, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; Alice Cheng, MD, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Dan Dattani, MBBS, College of Family Physicians of Canada, Mississauga, and St Michael’s Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Ross Feldman, MD, Memorial University, St John’s, Newfoundland, Canada; Geoff Lewis, MSc, RPh, Canadian Pharmacists Association, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; Karen Then, CCN(C), ACNP, PhD, University of Calgary and Alberta Health Services, Calgary, Alberta, Canada; and Sheldon Tobe, MD, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.