Is ACS in Young Patients a "Canary in the Coal Mine" for Familial Hypercholesterolemia?

Affiliations

¹ Division of Cardiovascular Medicine and Cardiovascular Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, California; The Familial Hypercholesterolemia Foundation, Pasadena, California. Electronic address: knowlej@stanford.edu.
² Department of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California.

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Joshua W Knowles et al. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2017.

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. 2017 Oct 3;70(14):1741-1743.

doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2017.08.019.

¹ Division of Cardiovascular Medicine and Cardiovascular Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, California; The Familial Hypercholesterolemia Foundation, Pasadena, California. Electronic address: knowlej@stanford.edu.
² Department of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California.

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Keywords: cascade screening; early onset coronary artery disease; low-density lipoprotein cholesterol.

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