Individuals tested in the program will be identified from two US healthcare systems, UT Southwestern Medical Center and the Veteran Affairs (VA) North Texas Health Care system. After an individual is ...

"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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

As a biomedical informatics researcher, Nigam Shah spends his days using math to try to make sense of giant, unwieldy data sets. He’s used data mining to identify off-label drug use and to create ...

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 ...

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 ...

The FH Foundation study, designed to validate and implement the FIND (Flag, Identify, Network, Deliver) FH model, was published online in The Lancet Digital Health and simultaneously presented at the ...

PASADENA, Calif., April 11, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the FH Foundation announced the launch of the FIND HoFH program to identify individuals at risk for homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia ...