Familial hypercholesterolemia, or FH, is a life-threatening genetic condition affecting about 1 in 250 people. Having FH increases the risk for early cardiovascular disease-- FH causes approximately 1 ...

ATLANTA, – The FH Foundation, a leading research and advocacy organization, announced today that a machine learning algorithm effectively identified individuals with probable familial ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Family Heart Foundation, a leading research and advocacy organization, completed an analysis of its large U.S. Family Heart Database TM showing that while the ...

"Over 600,000 people in the U.S. are estimated to have FH, though some research has shown this number could be approaching one and a half million. More than 90 percent of those living with FH are not ...

ANAHEIM, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Family Heart Foundation, a leading research and advocacy organization, shared results from an analysis of patients in its CASCADE FH ® Registry showing that ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . ATLANTA — Although progress has been made in diagnosing and treating patients with familial hypercholesterolemia ...

The FH Foundation, World Heart Federation, and an international coalition join together to tackle the global burden of familial hypercholesterolemia (FH), a vastly under-recognized and poorly managed ...

This transcript has been edited for clarity. Laurence Sperling, MD: Welcome to the Medscape InDiscussion podcast series on dyslipidemia. This is the first of six episodes. To launch this series today, ...

ATLANTA — A machine learning model was able to analyze large health-care encounter databases to identify patients with familial hypercholesterolemia, according to data presented at the FH Foundation’s ...

OXFORD, ENGLAND / ACCESSWIRE / September 20, 2024 / GENinCode Plc (AIM:GENI), the genetics company focused on the prevention of cardiovascular disease and ovarian cancer, announces its collaboration ...

Thirteen-year-old Michael Overstreet was dining at a small roadside restaurant in Nova Scotia during a family vacation when his dad collapsed and died from a heart attack. "It [was] very traumatic," ...