Discriminative Ability of LDL-Cholesterol to Identify Patients With Familial Hypercholesterolemia

Background-Screening for familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) within affected families is often based on cutoff values for low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C). However, the diagnostic accuracy of LDL-C levels is influenced by the magnitude of the LDL-C overlap between FH patients and unaffecte...

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Veröffentlicht in:Circulation. Cardiovascular genetics 2012-06, Vol.5 (3), p.354-359
Hauptverfasser: Huijgen, Roeland, Hutten, Barbara A, Kindt, Iris, Vissers, Maud N, Kastelein, John JP
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Sprache:eng
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