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Clinical Diagnostic Criteria of Familial Hypercholesterolemia - A Comparison of the Japan Atherosclerosis Society and Dutch Lipid Clinic Network Criteria.
Circulation journal : official journal of the Japanese Circulation Society - 25 May 2021
Tada Hayato, Okada Hirofumi, Nomura Akihiro, Usui Soichiro, Sakata Kenji, Nohara Atsushi, Yamagishi Masakazu, Takamura Masayuki, Kawashiri Masa-Aki
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BACKGROUND: This study is aimed to compare the efficacy of the 2017 Japan Atherosclerosis Society (JAS) familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) criteria, which focuses on only 3 essential clinical manifestations, with that of Dutch Lipid Clinic Network (DLCN) FH criteria, which adopts a scoring system of multiple elements. METHODS AND RESULTS: A total of 680 Japanese dyslipidemic participants (51% men) were enrolled...
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