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Familial Hypercholesterolemia

Familial Hypercholesterolemia: Call to Action and Recent Insights - February 19, 2015

New CDC feature: Genomics and Heart Disease

Familial hypercholesterolemia: Underdiagnosed, risks underappreciated; new treatments on horizon,
Cardiology Today, February 2015

Long-term statin treatment in children with familial hypercholesterolemia: More insight into tolerability and adherence
Braamskamp M, et al. Pediatric Drugs, Feb 2015

Big data used to help identify patients at risk of deadly high-cholesterol disorder,
by Tracie White, Scope, Jan 29

Find FH: The FH Foundation, AMGEN and Stanford University launch the Find FH initiative (Flag, Identify, Network, Deliver), Jan 29

Cascade screening for familial hypercholesterolemia,
by Mary Louise Brumit, FH Foundation (2014)

CDC paper: Reducing the burden of disease and death from familial hypercholesterolemia: A call to action.
Knowles JW, et al  Am Heart J. 2014 Dec;168(6):807-11

Proceedings of the FH Foundation's inaugural Familial Hypercholesterolemia Summit: Awareness to Action, the FH Foundation (2014)

Familial hypercholesterolemia-epidemiology, diagnosis, and screening. 
Singh S, Bittner V. Curr Atheroscler Rep. 2015 Feb;17(2):482

A framework for bridging the gap in the care of familial hypercholesterolaemia in the community: pragmatic and economic perspectives.
Purchase S, et al Int J Evid Based Healthc. 2014 Dec

Mortality among patients with familial hypercholesterolemia: a registry-based study in norway, 1992-2010. 
Mundal L, et al J Am Heart Assoc. 2014 Dec 2;3(6).

Familial hypercholesterolemia in Brazil: Cascade screening program, clinical and genetic aspects.
Jannes CE, et al. Atherosclerosis. 2014 Nov 14;238(1):101-107

Canadian Cardiovascular Society position statement on familial hypercholesterolemia.
Genest J, et al.  Can J Cardiol. 2014 Dec;30(12):1471-81

Recommendations for the management of patients with familial hypercholesterolemia.
Feldman DI, et al. Curr Atheroscler Rep. 2015 Jan;17(1):473

Systematic detection of familial hypercholesterolaemia in primary health care: A community based prospective study of three methods.
Kirke AB, et al. Heart Lung Circ. 2014 Sep 30

Prevalence and clinical correlates of familial hypercholesterolemia founder mutations in the general population.
Lahtinen AM, et al. Atherosclerosis. 2014 Nov 18;238(1):64-69

Therapy: PCSK9 inhibitors for treating familial hypercholesterolaemia.
Mabuchi H, Nohara A. Nat Rev Endocrinol. 2014 Nov 18

Exome sequencing identifies rare LDLR and APOA5 alleles conferring risk for myocardial infarction.
Nature. 2014 Dec 10 

Molecular basis for familial hypercholesterolemia, Brown and Goldstein Video (Sept 2014) 

Familial Hypercholesterolemia: Saving Lives Through Early Detection - September 25, 2014

September 24 was Familial Hypercholesterolemia Awareness Day

New CDC paper:  Reducing the burden of disease and death from familial hypercholesterolemia: A call to action
Joshua W. Knowles, Emily C. O'Brien, Karen Greendale, Katherine Wilemon, Jacques Genest, Laurence S. Sperling, William A. Neal, Daniel J. Rader, Muin J. Khoury.  American Heart Journal 2014 Sept 16

What is familial hypercholesterolemia? Information from the CDC Public Health Genomics toolkit.

History of discovery- The LDL receptor
Joseph L. Goldstein and Michael S. Brown Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology. 2009; 29: 431-438

Understanding familial hypercholesterolemia, Preventive Cardiology, July 2014

What are state public health programs doing about reducing burden of familial hypercholesterolemia? Information from CDC clickable state map

Helping patients with familial hypercholesterolemia find healthcare providers, information from the FH Foundation