Prevalence of Familial Hypercholesterolemia Among the General Population and Patients With Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease

Hu, Pengwei; Dharmayat, Kanika; Stevens, Christophe; Taghavi Azar Sharabiani, Mansour; Jones, Rebecca; F. Watts, Gerald; Genest, Jacques; K. Ray, Kausik; J. Vallejo‐Vaz, Antonio

doi:10.1161/circulationaha.119.044795

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Prevalence of Familial Hypercholesterolemia Among the General Population and Patients With Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease

Published in Circulation • May 29, 2020

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Pengwei Hu

Kanika Dharmayat

Christophe Stevens

Abstract

Background: Contemporary studies suggest that familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) is more frequent than previously reported and increasingly recognized as affecting individuals of all ethnicities and across many regions of the world. Precise estimation of its global prevalence and prevalence across W...

Subject

Medicine

Familial hypercholesterolemia

Atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease

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