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Assessment of medical intern’s knowledge, awareness and practice of familial hypercholesterolemia at academic institutes in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

BACKGROUND: Familial Hypercholesterolemia (FH) is a serious under-diagnosed disease characterized by raised low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) and premature coronary artery diseases (CAD). The scarcity of FH reported patients in Saudi Arabia indicates lack of FH awareness among physicians....

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Autores principales: Alzahrani, Sami H., Bima, Abdulhadi, Algethami, Mohammed R., Awan, Zuhier
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7243307/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32438925
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12944-020-01266-y