Identifying undiagnosed or undertreated patients with familial hypercholesterolemia from the laboratory records of a tertiary medical center

• Main Authors: Cem Haymana (Author), Hamza Berlik (Author), Yalçın Güneş (Author), Orhan Enes Tunçez (Author), Cihat Aytekin (Author), Zafer Tapıkara (Author), Hüseyin Güzel (Author), Özlem Öztürk (Author), Cem Barçın (Author), Taner Özgürtaş (Author), Ömer Azal (Author), Alper Sönmez (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: KARE Publishing, 2017-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Objective: Familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) is a life-threatening genetic disease associated with elevated low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) and premature coronary heart disease that is undiagnosed and undertreated around the world. This study aimed to examine the demographic characteris...