Cover: Identification and Management of Familial Hypercholesterolemia

Identification and Management of Familial Hypercholesterolemia

Published In: NICE Clinical Guideline 71 (London, UK : National Institute For Health and Clinical Excellence, Aug. 2008), 45 p

Posted on RAND.org on January 01, 2008

by Rubin Minhas, Steve E. Humphries, Dawn Davies, Philip Lee, Ian McDowell, Andrew Neil, Nadeem Qureshi, Philip Rowlands, Mary Seed, Helen Stracey, et al.

The advice in the NICE guideline covers the care and treatment of adults and children/young people with familial hypercholesterolaemia (a specific type of inherited high cholesterol that runs in the family).

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