Development of sensitive and specific age- and gender-specific low-density lipoprotein cholesterol cutoffs for diagnosis of first-degree relatives with familial hypercholesterolaemia in cascade testing.

BACKGROUND: The plasma total and low-density lipoprotein-cholesterol (LDL-C) levels that are used as diagnostic criteria for familial hypercholesterolaemia (FH) probands in the general population are too stringent for use in relatives, given the higher prior probability of a first-degree relative b...

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मुख्य लेखकों: Starr, B, Hadfield, S, Hutten, B, Lansberg, P, Leren, T, Damgaard, D, Neil, H, Humphries, SE
स्वरूप: Journal article
भाषा:English
प्रकाशित: 2008