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Familial Hypercholesterolemia

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Last Updated: Feb 18, 2016

• Improving the cost-effectiveness equation of cascade testing for familial hypercholesterolaemia.
  Pears Robert et al. Current opinion in lipidology 2015 Jun 26(3) 162-8 (From Genomics & Health Impact Scan Database)
• Management of Familial Hypercholesterolemia in Hong Kong.
  Hu Miao et al. Journal of atherosclerosis and thrombosis 2016 Feb (From Genomics & Health Impact Scan Database)
• A new electronic screening tool for identifying risk of familial hypercholesterolaemia in general practice.
  Troeung Lakkhina et al. Heart (British Cardiac Society) 2016 Feb (From Discoveries and Insights Database)
• Novel therapies for severe dyslipidemia originating from human genetics.
  Gaudet Daniel et al. Current opinion in lipidology 2016 Feb (From Discoveries and Insights Database)
• Initiation of PCSK9 inhibition in patients with heterozygous familial hypercholesterolaemia entering adulthood: a new design for living with a high-risk condition?
  Vuorio Alpo et al. European heart journal 2016 Feb (From Discoveries and Insights Database)
• Familial hypercholesterolemia: Review of diagnosis, screening, and treatment.
  Turgeon Ricky D et al. Canadian family physician Me´decin de famille canadien 2016 Jan 62(1) 32-7(From Genomics & Health Impact Scan Database)
• The hinterland of familial hypercholesterolaemia: what do we not know?
  Wierzbicki Anthony S et al. Current opinion in lipidology 2015 Dec (6) 475-83 (From Discoveries and Insights Database)
• PCSK9 Inhibitors: Good Early Responses With Pricey Drugs, but Doctors Still Waiting on Real Data
  M O'Riordan. tctmd, January 27, 2016 (From Discoveries and Insights Database)
• Pharmacotherapies for Familial Hypercholesterolemia
  BS Yasgur, MPR, January 20, 2016 (From Discoveries and Insights Database)
• Precision health in action — The hunt for families with a high-cholesterol disorder 
  B Bach, Stanford Medicine Blog, January 15, 2016 (From Discoveries and Insights Database)
• An Algorithm Could Know You Have A Genetic Disease Before You Do
  AM Barry-Jester, Five Thirty Eight, January 13, 2016 (From Discoveries and Insights Database)
• Familial Hypercholesterolemia: The Reason to Screen Children for Cholesterol Abnormalities.
  Daniels Stephen R et al. The Journal of pediatrics 2015 Dec (From Genomics & Health Impact Scan Database)
• ANNALS EXPRESS: Molecular testing for familial hypercholesterolemia-associated mutations in a UK-based cohort: Development of an NGS-based method and comparison with multiplex PCR and oligonucleotide arrays.
  Reiman Ann et al. Annals of clinical biochemistry 2016 Jan (From Genomics & Health Impact Scan Database)
• Predicting Self-Management Behaviors in Familial Hypercholesterolemia Using an Integrated Theoretical Model: the Impact of Beliefs About Illnesses and Beliefs About Behaviors.
  Hagger Martin S et al. International journal of behavioral medicine 2016 Jan (From Genomics & Health Impact Scan Database)
• Clinical phenotype in relation to the distance-to-index-patient in familial hypercholesterolemia.
  Besseling Joost et al. Atherosclerosis 2015 Dec 2461-6 (From Genomics & Health Impact Scan Database)
• An initiative to extend testing for familial hypercholesterolaemia across the U.K.
  Nicholls Mark et al. European heart journal 2015 Oct 36(39) 2627-8 (From Discoveries and Insights Database)