• DOI:10.1007/s11883-009-0072-0
Corpus ID: 37833889

Hypercholesterolemia in Youth: Opportunities and Obstacles to Prevent Premature Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease

@article{McNeal2010HypercholesterolemiaIY,
  title={Hypercholesterolemia in Youth: Opportunities and Obstacles to Prevent Premature Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease},
  author={C. McNeal and T. Dajani and Don P. Wilson and A. Cassidy-Bushrow and J. Dickerson and M. Ory},
  journal={Current Atherosclerosis Reports},
  year={2010},
  volume={12},
  pages={20-28}
}

• C. McNeal, T. Dajani, +3 authors M. Ory
• Published 2010
• Medicine
• Current Atherosclerosis Reports

Treatment of hypercholesterolemia in youth is predicated on the knowledge that we can identify those youth with this atherosclerotic risk factor most likely to develop premature cardiovascular disease. Unfortunately, this is not the case. Before we can adequately address appropriate lipid-lowering therapies in this special population, we must address and resolve current barriers related to screening and diagnosis. In this article, we describe some of the opportunities and obstacles that… Expand