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The Montreal-FH-SCORE: A new score to predict cardiovascular events in familial hypercholesterolemia.
Journal of clinical lipidology - 1 Jan 2000
Paquette Martine, Dufour Robert, Baass Alexis
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) is characterized by extremely high low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) concentration and premature cardiovascular disease (CVD). Not all FH patients present the same CVD risk, and currently, there is no clinical tool to assess this risk. OBJECTIVE: The objectives of this cross-sectional cohort study are twofold: to identify the strongest predictors of CVD in...
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