Familial hypercholesterolaemia: history, diagnosis, screening, management and challenges

Heart. 2020 Dec;106(24):1940-1946. doi: 10.1136/heartjnl-2019-316276. Epub 2020 Sep 15.

Authors

Erik Berg Schmidt^{1

2}, Berit Storgaard Hedegaard^{2

3}, Kjetil Retterstøl^{4

5}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Cardiology, Aalborg University Hospital, Aalborg, Denmark ebs@rn.dk.
² Department of Clinical Medicine, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark.
³ Department of Cardiology, Viborg Regional Hospital, Viborg, Midtjylland, Denmark.
⁴ Department of Nutrition, Institute of Basic Medical Science, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.
⁵ The Lipid Clinic, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway.

PMID: 32933999
DOI: 10.1136/heartjnl-2019-316276

No abstract available

Keywords: clinical genetics; lipoproteins and hyperlipidaemia.

Publication types

Historical Article
Review

MeSH terms

Disease Management*
History, 19th Century
History, 20th Century
History, 21st Century
Humans
Hyperlipoproteinemia Type II / diagnosis
Hyperlipoproteinemia Type II / history*
Mass Screening / history*
Mass Screening / methods