title: Familial hypercholesterolaemia: A global call to arms.
authors.affiliation: School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK.
authors.forename: Antonio J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Vallejo-Vaz
authors.affiliation: Cardiovascular and Cell Sciences Research Institute, St George's University of London, London, UK.
authors.forename: Sreenivasa Rao
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authors.lastname: Kondapally Seshasai
authors.affiliation: Cardiovascular and Cell Sciences Research Institute, St George's University of London, London, UK.
authors.forename: Della
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authors.lastname: Cole
authors.affiliation: Academic Medical Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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authors.lastname: Hovingh
authors.affiliation: Academic Medical Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: John J P
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Kastelein
authors.affiliation: Fundación Hipercolesterolemia Familiar, Madrid, Spain.
authors.forename: Pedro
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authors.lastname: Mata
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
authors.forename: Frederick J
authors.initials: FJ
authors.lastname: Raal
authors.affiliation: Heart Institute (InCor), University of Sao Paulo Medical School Hospital, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
authors.forename: Raul D
authors.initials: RD
authors.lastname: Santos
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.
authors.forename: Handrean
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authors.lastname: Soran
authors.affiliation: Cardiovascular Medicine, Royal Perth Hospital, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia.
authors.forename: Gerald F
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authors.lastname: Watts
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Biochemistry and Molecular Therapeutics, Faculty of Pharmacy, Saint-Joseph University, Beirut, Lebanon.
authors.forename: Marianne
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authors.lastname: Abifadel
authors.affiliation: Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición, Mexico City, Mexico.
authors.forename: Carlos A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Aguilar-Salinas
authors.affiliation: Global eHealth Unit, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK.
authors.forename: Asif
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Akram
authors.affiliation: Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation Unit, Prince Sultan Cardiac Centre Riyadh, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
authors.forename: Fahad
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Alnouri
authors.affiliation: Lipid Clinic, Department of Nutrition, Clínica Las Condes, Santiago de Chile, Chile.
authors.forename: Rodrigo
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Alonso
authors.affiliation: Sultan Qaboos University Hospital, Muscat, Oman.
authors.forename: Khalid
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Al-Rasadi
authors.affiliation: Department of Hypertension, Medical University of Lodz, Lodz, Poland.
authors.forename: Maciej
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Banach
authors.affiliation: National Advisory Unit on Familial Hypercholesterolemia, Norway.
authors.forename: Martin P
authors.initials: MP
authors.lastname: Bogsrud
authors.affiliation: Instituto Nacional de Saúde Doutor Ricardo Jorge and BioISI - Biosystems & Integrative Sciences Institute, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal.
authors.forename: Mafalda
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authors.lastname: Bourbon
authors.affiliation: Endocrinologie métabolisme et prevention cardiovasculaire, Institut E3M et IHU cardiométabolique (ICAN), HôpitalPitiéSalpêtrière, Paris, France.
authors.forename: Eric
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authors.lastname: Bruckert
authors.affiliation: Global eHealth Unit, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK; Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
authors.forename: Josip
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authors.lastname: Car
authors.affiliation: FASTA University, School of Medicine, Mar del Plata, Argentina.
authors.forename: Pablo
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authors.lastname: Corral
authors.affiliation: Hôpital de Jolimont, Haine Saint-Paul, Belgium.
authors.forename: Olivier
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authors.lastname: Descamps
authors.affiliation: Austrian Atherosclerosis Society, c/o, Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria.
authors.forename: Hans
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Dieplinger
authors.affiliation: Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel.
authors.forename: Ronen
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authors.lastname: Durst
authors.affiliation: Centre for Cardiovascular Surgery and Transplantation Brno, and Ceitec, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.
authors.forename: Tomas
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authors.lastname: Freiberger
authors.affiliation: Medical Genetics Department, Centro Hospitalar de Lisboa Ocidental and Genetics Laboratory, Lisbon Medical School, University of Lisbon, Portugal.
authors.forename: Isabel M
authors.initials: IM
authors.lastname: Gaspar
authors.affiliation: McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
authors.forename: Jaques
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Genest
authors.affiliation: National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Centre Research Institute, Osaka, Japan.
authors.forename: Mariko
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authors.lastname: Harada-Shiba
authors.affiliation: National Center for Cardiovascular Diseases, Beijing, China.
authors.forename: Lixin
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authors.lastname: Jiang
authors.affiliation: Ege University Medical School, Department of Cardiology, Izmir, Turkey.
authors.forename: Meral
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authors.lastname: Kayikcioglu
authors.affiliation: National Heart Centre Singapore and Duke-National University of Singapore, Singapore.
authors.forename: Carolyn S P
authors.initials: CS
authors.lastname: Lam
authors.affiliation: Paul Stradins Clinical University Hospital, Latvian Research Institute of Cardiology, University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia.
authors.forename: Gustavs
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Latkovskis
authors.affiliation: Universität des Saarlandes, Homburg, Germany.
authors.forename: Ulrich
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Laufs
authors.affiliation: University of Ioannina Medical School, Ioannina, Greece.
authors.forename: Evangelos
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authors.lastname: Liberopoulos
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical and Health Sciences, Linkoping University, Linkoping, Sweden.
authors.forename: Lennart
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authors.lastname: Nilsson
authors.affiliation: Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, Copenhagen University Hospital, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
authors.forename: Børge G
authors.initials: BG
authors.lastname: Nordestgaard
authors.affiliation: Global eHealth Unit, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK.
authors.forename: John M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: O'Donoghue
authors.affiliation: Biotechnology Research Center, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran.
authors.forename: Amirhossein
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sahebkar
authors.affiliation: Deutsches Herzzentrum Munchen, Klinikan der TU Munchen, Munich Heart Alliance, Germany.
authors.forename: Heribert
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Schunkert
authors.affiliation: CMHS, UAE University, AlAin, United Arab Emirates.
authors.forename: Abdulla
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Shehab
authors.affiliation: Cardiovascular Genetic Laboratory, Cardiovascular Health Commission, Montevideo, Uruguay.
authors.forename: Mario
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Stoll
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine and Cardiovascular Centre, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan.
authors.forename: Ta-Chen
authors.initials: TC
authors.lastname: Su
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Clinical Lipidology, Cardiology Research Complex, Moscow, Russia.
authors.forename: Andrey
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Susekov
authors.affiliation: Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland FIMM, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
authors.forename: Elisabeth
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Widén
authors.affiliation: University of Milan and Multimedica IRCCS Milan, Italy.
authors.forename: Alberico L
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Catapano
authors.affiliation: School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK. Electronic address: k.ray@imperial.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Kausik K
authors.initials: KK
authors.lastname: Ray
mesh_terms: D005060:Europe; D014943:Global Health; D006579:Heterozygote; D006801:Humans; D006938:Hyperlipoproteinemia Type II / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000235:genetics / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000628:therapy*; D009154:Mutation; D011973:Receptors, LDL / Q000235:genetics; D012955:Societies, Medical
chemical_list: D011973:Receptors, LDL
keywords: Familial hypercholesterolaemia