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João Albuquerque1, Ana Margarida Medeiros2, Ana Catarina Alves2

  • 1Departamento de Biomedicina, Unidade de Bioquímica, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade do Porto, 4200-319, Porto, Portugal; Centro de Estatística e Aplicações, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, 1749-016, Lisboa, Portugal; Grupo de Investigação Cardiovascular, Departamento de Promoção da Saúde e Prevenção de Doenças Não Transmissíveis, Instituto Nacional de Saúde Doutor Ricardo Jorge, 1649-016, Lisboa, Portugal.

Atherosclerosis
|October 9, 2023
PubMed
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早期诊断出家族性高胆固醇血症 (FH),可以降低心血管疾病的风险. 一个新的后勤回归模型,训练在多个队列,准确地识别FH病例跨多种人群,超越传统的标准.

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