TY - JOUR
T1 - Familial hypercholesterolaemia
AU - Nair, Devaki R.
AU - Sharifi, Mahtab
AU - Al-Rasadi, Khalid
PY - 2014/7
Y1 - 2014/7
N2 - Increased awareness and wider availability of guidance to treat familial hypercholesterolaemia will improve management of familial hypercholesterolaemia. New therapies, if they become available after appropriate outcome studies, will reduce LDL-C levels in both homozygous familial hypercholesterolaemia and severe heterozygous familial hypercholesterolaemia, thus reducing the risk for premature CHD.
AB - Increased awareness and wider availability of guidance to treat familial hypercholesterolaemia will improve management of familial hypercholesterolaemia. New therapies, if they become available after appropriate outcome studies, will reduce LDL-C levels in both homozygous familial hypercholesterolaemia and severe heterozygous familial hypercholesterolaemia, thus reducing the risk for premature CHD.
KW - Familial hypercholesterolaemia
KW - Guidelines for familial hypercholesterolaemia
KW - Premature coronary heart disease
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U2 - 10.1097/HCO.0000000000000083
DO - 10.1097/HCO.0000000000000083
M3 - Review article
C2 - 24870549
AN - SCOPUS:84904816929
SN - 0268-4705
VL - 29
SP - 381
EP - 388
JO - Current Opinion in Cardiology
JF - Current Opinion in Cardiology
IS - 4
ER -