US physician practices for diagnosing familial hypercholesterolemia: data from the CASCADE-FH registry
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- 作者：Zahid S. Ahmad ; MD
- 关键词：Familial hypercholesterolemia ; Simon Broome ; Dutch lipid clinic network ; MEDPED ; Hypercholesterolemia
- 刊名：Journal of Clinical Lipidology
- 出版年：2016
- 出版时间：September-October 2016
- 年：2016
- 卷：10
- 期：5
- 页码：1223-1229
- 全文大小：358 K
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- <p id="p0010">Familial hypercholesterolemia is underdiagnosed in the United States.p>
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- <p id="p0015">Three FH diagnostic criteria are widely used: Simon Broome, MEDPED, and DLCN.p>
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- <p id="p0020">In the United States, no one criterion is widely utilized.p>
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- <p id="p0025">Rather, US lipid specialists often rely on a heuristic “clinical” diagnosis.p>