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. 2021 Sep;28(3):217-220.
doi: 10.1177/09691413211025426. Epub 2021 Jul 22.

The UK National Screening Committee's position on child-parent screening for familial hypercholesterolaemia

David S Wald  1 , Dermot Neely  2
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The UK National Screening Committee's position on child-parent screening for familial hypercholesterolaemia

David S Wald et al. J Med Screen. 2021 Sep.
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Conflict of interest statement

Declaration of conflicting interests: The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

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