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Hypercholesterolaemia - familial - Management
Basis for recommendation
These recommendations are in line with a guideline published by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), Identification and management of familial hypercholesterolaemia [NICE, 2008].
- NICE recommend the use of the Simon Broome diagnostic criteria. These are validated criteria, recommended by NICE because their development was based on a UK population, and they are simpler to use than other criteria with a comparable or better positive likelihood ratio [National Collaborating Centre for Primary Care, 2008b].
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