Genetic Diagnostic Approaches in Familial Hypercholesterolemia Evaluation
Familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) manifested as atherosclerosis is a major cause of coronary heart disease. Different scoring systems based on clinical and paraclinical data are currently used, but the FH diagnosis should be made only in the presence of the causative genetic defect. In the present...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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2021-07-01
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Series: | Romanian Journal of Laboratory Medicine |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.2478/rrlm-2021-0025 |