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Cascade screening of familial hypercholesterolemia must go on.
Atherosclerosis - 1 Oct 2015
Galema-Boers J M H, Versmissen J, Roeters van Lennep H W O, Dusault-Wijkstra J E, Williams M, Roeters van Lennep J E
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PURPOSE: This study assesses the success of the recently terminated Dutch nationwide cascade screening by examining whether children with familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) were identified through family screening or due to cardiovascular (CVD) events in the FH parent. METHODS: We collected clinical information of all children (0-18 years) with FH with a pathogenic variant at our outpatient lipid clinic between...
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