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Lipid Screening, Action, and Follow-up in Children and Adolescents.
Current cardiology reports - 9 Aug 2018
Wiegman Albert
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PURPOSE OF REVIEW: To create awareness for the devastating influence of high cholesterol in familial hypercholesterolaemia (FH) on vessel walls. Persons with high LDL-C and a known mutation associated with FH have a 22-fold increase in CVD compared with those with a normal LDL-C and no genetic mutation. If the awareness of the need to diagnose and treat this genetic disorder at an early stage increases, great...
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