Open AccessChild–Parent Familial Hypercholesterolemia Screening in Primary Care
Author(s) -
David S Wald,
Jonathan P. Bestwick,
Joan K. Morris,
Ken Whyte,
Lucy Jenkins,
Nicholas Wald
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
new england journal of medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 19.889
H-Index - 1030
eISSN - 1533-4406
pISSN - 0028-4793
DOI - 10.1056/nejmoa1602777
Subject(s) - familial hypercholesterolemia , medicine , newborn screening , cholesterol , pediatrics , confidence interval
Child-parent screening for familial hypercholesterolemia has been proposed to identify persons at high risk for inherited premature cardiovascular disease. We assessed the efficacy and feasibility of such screening in primary care practice.
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