Reducing the burden of disease and death from familial hypercholesterolemia: a call to action.

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Published in Am Heart J on September 16, 2014

Authors

Joshua W Knowles1, Emily C O'Brien2, Karen Greendale3, Katherine Wilemon3, Jacques Genest4, Laurence S Sperling5, William A Neal6, Daniel J Rader7, Muin J Khoury8

Author Affiliations

1: Stanford University School of Medicine and Cardiovascular Institute, Stanford, CA; The FH Foundation, South Pasadena, CA.
2: Duke Clinical Research Institute, Durham, NC. Electronic address: emily.obrien@duke.edu.
3: The FH Foundation, South Pasadena, CA.
4: McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
5: Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA.
6: West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV.
7: University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
8: Office of Public Health Genomics, Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, Atlanta, GA.

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