{"title":"Still seeking the missing patients with familial hypercholesterolemia","authors":"D. Ansell","doi":"10.15761/jccr.1000101","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Received: September 04, 2018; Accepted: September 19, 2018; Published: September 24, 2018 In 2013 the European Atherosclerosis panel [1] highlighted the under diagnosis and under treatment of patients with heterozygous familial hypercholesterolaemia (heFH) in most, if not all, European countries. In the UK, NICE recently updated its clinical guideline (CG71) to primary care doctors for screening patients and identifying patients with heFH [2]. Are we any closer to knowing the true prevalence of heFH?","PeriodicalId":22442,"journal":{"name":"The Cardiology","volume":"2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2018-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"The Cardiology","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.15761/jccr.1000101","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Received: September 04, 2018; Accepted: September 19, 2018; Published: September 24, 2018 In 2013 the European Atherosclerosis panel [1] highlighted the under diagnosis and under treatment of patients with heterozygous familial hypercholesterolaemia (heFH) in most, if not all, European countries. In the UK, NICE recently updated its clinical guideline (CG71) to primary care doctors for screening patients and identifying patients with heFH [2]. Are we any closer to knowing the true prevalence of heFH?