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The abstract, titled “Development and validation of clinical criteria to identify familial chylomicronemia syndrome (FCS) in North America,” was meant to develop and validate a diagnostic score for North American patients based on signs, symptoms, and biochemical traits of FCS. Our #ADVIExperts used numerical scores that were attributed based upon the following: age, hypertriglyceridemia onset, body mass index, history of abdominal pain/pancreatitis, presence of secondary factors, triglyceride (TG) levels, ratio of TG/total cholesterol, and apolipoprotein B level.
See the full manuscript in The Journal of Clinical Lipidology.