Journal article
Developing and applying clinically useful approaches to identify individuals with familial hypercholesterolemia in the UK
- Abstract:
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Familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) meets internationally agreed criteria for screening, and systematic national screening programs should, therefore, be initiated. Cascade testing (to screen at-risk relatives) of known index cases with FH (using a combination of mutation information and lipid levels) is cost effective, and is an evidence?based method for the identification of undiagnosed cases, but calculations indicate that this approach will, at best, identify 40% of the predicted cases; th...
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- Journal:
- Clinical Lipidology
- Volume:
- 5
- Issue:
- 4
- Pages:
- 497-507
- Publication date:
- 2010-08-01
- DOI:
- ISSN:
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1746-0875
- Source identifiers:
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95011
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- English
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- Pubs id:
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pubs:95011
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- pubs:95011
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- 2012-12-19
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- 2010
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