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[A family-based strategy for diagnosing familial hypercholesterolemia].
Tidsskrift for den Norske laegeforening : tidsskrift for praktisk medicin, ny raekke - 6 May 2004
Leren Trond P, Manshaus Turid, Ose Leiv
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BACKGROUND: Patients with familial hypercholesterolaemia have increased risk of developing coronary heart disease. The most cost-effective way of diagnosing patients with familial hypercholesterolaemia is to perform genetic testing of close relatives of already diagnosed patients. MATERIAL AND METHODS: Probands with familial hypercholesterolaemia in whom the underlying mutation in the low-density lipoprotein...
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