MILAN, Italy—Children with familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) are frequently diagnosed late, mostly through cascade screening, and have considerably elevated LDL-cholesterol levels compared with ...

MANNHEIM, Germany—A strategy that uses multiple ways of communicating with family members helps improve cascade testing for familial hypercholesterolemia (FH), according to results from IMPACT-FH, a ...

The German Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG) was commissioned by the Federal Joint Committee (G-BA) to assess the benefit of universal blood lipid screening for the early ...

As families come together to celebrate the holiday season, the shared time can be an opportunity to talk about health. Although genetics may not be the liveliest of holiday dinner topics, family ...

Share on Bluesky. Opens in a new tab or window Share on X. Opens in a new tab or window Share on LinkedIn. Opens in a new tab or window "Medical Journeys" is a set of clinical resources reviewed by ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A test screening for three common genetic disorders may be cost-effective in adults aged younger than 40 years.

Using a multiple linear regression model, we derived the time interval to detect an estimated 3.9 million individuals in the United States with a pathogenic variant in 1 of 18 cancer susceptibility ...