Familial hypercholesterolemia in China: prevalence and evidence of underdetection and undertreatment in a community population

Int J Cardiol. 2014 Jul 1;174(3):834-6. doi: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2014.04.165. Epub 2014 Apr 21.

¹ Department of Nutrition and Foodborne Disease Prevention, Jiangsu Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, China; Discipline of Medicine, University of Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. Electronic address: zumin.shi@adelaide.edu.au.
² Department of Nutrition and Foodborne Disease Prevention, Jiangsu Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, China.
³ Department of Epidemiology, Beijing Anzhen Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing Institute of Heart, Lung and Blood Vessel Diseases, Beijing, China.
⁴ Discipline of Medicine, University of Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.
⁵ Department of Atherosclerosis, Beijing Anzhen Hospital, Capital Medical University, China.
⁶ Lipid Disorders Clinic, Cardiovascular Medicine, Royal Perth Hospital, School of Medicine and Pharmacology, University of Western Australia, Western Australia, Australia.

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Keywords: China; Familial hypercholesterolemia; Prevalence.

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