Changing the conversation regarding pediatric cholesterol screening: The rare disease paradigm

Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine

Volumn 166, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1097-1098

  Gillman, Matthew W ^a,b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN RECEPTOR; TRANS FATTY ACID;

ADULTHOOD; ADVERSE OUTCOME; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ATHEROSCLEROTIC CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; CARBOHYDRATE INTAKE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CATERING SERVICE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD OBESITY; CONGENITAL HYPOTHYROIDISM; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; EMERGENCY WARD; EPIDEMIC; FAMILIAL HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; FAMILY HISTORY; GENETIC SCREENING; HEART ARREST; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPERTRIGLYCERIDEMIA; INCIDENCE; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LIFESTYLE MODIFICATION; LIPID ANALYSIS; LONG TERM CARE; NOTE; OTALGIA; PHYSICAL EDUCATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RARE DISEASE; RESUSCITATION; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA; SOCIETY; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CHILD; CHOLESTEROL; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; RARE DISEASES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84870673932     PISSN: 10724710     EISSN: 15383628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archpediatrics.2012.1907     Document Type: Note

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