Clinical Diagnostic Criteria of Familial Hypercholesterolemia - A Comparison of the Japan Atherosclerosis Society and Dutch Lipid Clinic Network Criteria.
CONCLUSIONS: Among Japanese patients, the JAS 2017 FH criteria is considered superior to diagnose FH mutation-positive patients and simultaneously rule out FH mutation-negative patients compared with the DLCN FH criteria.
PMID: 33268660 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Circulation Journal - Category: Cardiology Authors: Tada H, Okada H, Nomura A, Usui S, Sakata K, Nohara A, Yamagishi M, Takamura M, Kawashiri MA Tags: Circ J Source Type: research