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ReviewAmerican journal of preventive cardiology2025

State-of-the-art review: The value of leveraging evidence and data (LEAD) in pediatric screening for familial hypercholesterolemia.

Jonathan N Flyer, Tomáš Freiberger, Adam L Ware, Amy L Peterson

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Review in American journal of preventive cardiology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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2 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Jonathan N FlyerDepartment of Pediatrics, The Robert Larner MD College of Medicine at the University of Vermont, Given Courtyard 2 South, 89 Beaumont Avenue, Burlington, VT 05405 USA.
Tomáš FreibergerCentre for Cardiovascular Surgery and Transplantation, Pekařská 53, Brno, 603 00, Czech Republic.
Adam L WareDivision of Pediatric Cardiology, University of Utah, 81N. Mario Capecchi Drive, Salt Lake City, UT 84106 USA.
Amy L PetersonDepartment of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Cardiology, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, 600 Highland Ave, Madison, WI 53792 USA.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) is a common genetic disorder of lipid metabolism resulting in lifelong elevated levels of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol and early atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease. Although FH can be identified at young ages, it remains frequently undetected, underdiagnosed, and undertreated in the United States and around the world. Despite compelling data to support screening for FH in children, and universal lipid screening guidelines endorsed by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute and the American Academy of Pediatrics, screening practices in the United States remain controversial and suboptimal. The Family Heart Foundation launched its LEAD (Leverage Evidence and Data) Pediatric Initiative at the 2024 Family Heart Foundation 10th Annual Global Summit to help understand testing barriers, propose innovative solutions, and integrate improvement science to measure outcomes. Presentations highlighted common challenges with pediatric lipid screening and demonstrated creative process solutions to improve screening prevalence for children. This state-of-the-art review discusses common barriers to pediatric lipid screening, identifies process solutions, and explores innovative practices to increase the frequency of universal pediatric lipid screening.

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Familial hypercholesterolemiaGuideline implementationImprovement sciencePediatric lipid screening

Identifiers

PMID40978301
PMCPMC12445570

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