Open AccessCensus of clinics providing specialist lipid services in the United Kingdom
Author(s) -
Dalya Marks,
Margaret Thorogood,
J. M. Farrer,
Steve E. Humphries
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.916
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1741-3850
pISSN - 1741-3842
DOI - 10.1093/pubmed/fdh176
Subject(s) - census , kingdom , medicine , environmental health , family medicine , geography , population , paleontology , biology
Screening for familial hypercholesterolaemia (FH) through family tracing of relatives is cost-effective, but access to the index patient through specialist lipid clinics is a determinant of the programme's success. This paper reports on numbers of FH patients and on specialist lipid clinic provision in the United Kingdom.
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