The UK's medicines and medical device regulator (MHRA) says home testing can play an important role in healthcare, but kits and readings shouldn't be relied upon on their own. Most kits will only measure total cholesterol, rather than the ratio of HDL to LDL – ‘good’ to ‘bad’ – cholesterol too.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original article at https://patient.info/news-and-features/review-home-cholesterol-testing-kits