Simon Broome Familial Hypercholesterolemia Register diagnostic criteria for familial hypercholesterolemia[1-3]
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Reproduced from: Austin MA, Hutter CM, Zimmern RL, Humphries SE. Genetic causes of monogenic heterozygous familial hypercholesterolemia: a HuGE prevalence review. Am J Epidemiol 2004; 160(5):407-420. By permission of Oxford University Press on behalf of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Copyright © 2017.