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Population-Based Screening in Children For Early Diagnosis and Treatment of Familial Hypercholesterolemia: Design of The VRONI Study
2021-03-31
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<title>Abstract</title> <p><bold>Background: </bold>Heterozygous Familial Hypercholesterolemia (FH) represents the most frequent monogenic disorder with an estimated prevalence of 1:250 in the general population. Diagnosis during childhood enables early initiation of preventive measures, reducing the risk of severe consecutive atherosclerotic manifestations. Nevertheless, population-based screening programs for F...
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- Literature Corpus work
- f20abc20-cb75-564d-881e-1dfa6da8c043
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- 10.21203/rs.3.rs-339829/v1
