Treatment Patterns and Lipid Profile in Patients with Familial Hypercholesterolemia in Japan.

CONCLUSIONS: Treatment and management of LDL-C in Japanese FH patients remain suboptimal. The results suggest that FH is underdiagnosed in real-world, routine clinical practice in Japan. There is an urgent need to improve the diagnostic rate of FH and to provide the appropriate therapy to achieve the recommended LDL-C levels of ＜100 mg/dL or a more than 50% reduction for patients with FH in Japan. PMID: 29353825 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Journal of Atherosclerosis and Thrombosis - Category: Cardiology Tags: J Atheroscler Thromb Source Type: research