Improving the cost-effectiveness equation of cascade testing for familial hypercholesterolaemia.

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Published in Curr Opin Lipidol on June 01, 2015

Authors

Robert Pears1, Michael Griffin, Marta Futema, Steve E Humphries

Author Affiliations

1: aPublic Health Department, Corporate Services, Hampshire County Council, Winchester, Hampshire bSolutions for Public Health, Oxford Business Park South, Cowley, Oxfordshire cCentre for Cardiovascular Genetics, Institute of Cardiovascular Science, University College London, London, UK.

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