Familial hypercholesterolaemia in children and adolescents: gaining decades of life by optimizing detection and treatment

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Paediatrics, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands [email protected].
• ² Nemours Cardiac Center, A. I. DuPont Hospital for Children, Wilmington, DE, USA.
• ³ School of Medicine and Pharmacology, Royal Perth Hospital Unit, The University of Western Australia, Western Australia, Australia.
• ⁴ Pierre and Marie Curie University, Paris, France National Institute for Health and Medical Research (INSERM), Pitié-Salpêtrière University Hospital, Paris, France.
• ⁵ Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY, USA Irving Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, USA.
• ⁶ Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
• ⁷ Department of Nutrition, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway Lipid Clinic, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway.
• ⁸ Department of Internal Medicine, University of Palermo, Italy.
• ⁹ Diderot Medical School, University Paris 7, Paris, France Genetics Department, Bichat University Hospital, Paris, France INSERM U698, Paris, France.
• ¹⁰ Department of Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, Göteborg University, Gothenburg, Sweden Wallenberg Laboratory for Cardiovascular Research, Gothenburg, Sweden.
• ¹¹ Department of Endocrinology and Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease, University Hospital Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France.
• ¹² Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Milano, Milan, Italy Multimedica IRCSS, Milan, Italy.
• ¹³ Department of Vascular Medicine, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
• ¹⁴ Centre Hospitalier Jolimont-Lobbes, Nivelles-Tubize, Belgium.
• ¹⁵ Robarts Research Institute, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada.
• ¹⁶ Centre for Cardiovascular Genetics, University College London, Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences, London, UK.
• ¹⁷ Wihuri Research Institute, Helsinki, Finland.
• ¹⁸ Department of Pediatrics, Section Molecular Genetics, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.
• ¹⁹ Vascular Medicine and Metabolic Unit, Department of Medicine and Surgery, University Rovira and Virgili, Reus-Tarragona, Spain.
• ²⁰ Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Herlev Hospital, Copenhagen University Hospital, Herlev, Denmark Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
• ²¹ Department of Human Genetics, Center for Metabolic Disease Prevention, University of California, Los Angeles, USA.
• ²² Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, University of Munich, Munich, Germany.
• ²³ Carbohydrate & Lipid Metabolism Research Unit; and Division of Endocrinology & Metabolism, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
• ²⁴ Department of Primary Care and Public Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College, London, UK.
• ²⁵ Lipid Clinic of the Heart Institute (InCor), University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil Department of Cardiology, University of São Paulo Medical School, São Paulo, Brazil.
• ²⁶ Department of Medicine, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
• ²⁷ Evangelisches Geriatriezentrum Berlin gGmbH (EGZB), Berlin, Germany Charité - Universitätsmedizin, Berlin, Germany.
• ²⁸ Research Programs Unit, Diabetes & Obesity, University of Helsinki and Heart & Lung Centre, Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland.
• ²⁹ Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Section for Molecular Genetics, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
• ³⁰ Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden Department of Cardiology, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden.