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Screening for Familial Hypercholesterolemia in Small Towns: Experience from 11 Brazilian Cities at the HipercolBrasil Program

2020-11-25

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<title>Abstract</title> <p><bold>Background</bold>: Familial hypercholesterolemia is an autosomal dominant disease clinically characterized by elevated serum levels of low density lipoprotein-cholesterol (LDL-C) and associated with the occurrence of early atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease. In Brazil, HipercolBrasil, currently the largest screening program underway, exists since 2012 and has already identifie...

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Literature Corpus work: e60af926-fb09-5110-aeb9-18b08d871c9b
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-112990/v1

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