Clinical Diagnostic Criteria of Familial Hypercholesterolemia ― A Comparison of the Japan Atherosclerosis Society and Dutch Lipid Clinic Network Criteria ―

Background:This study is aimed to compare the efficacy of the 2017 Japan Atherosclerosis Society (JAS) familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) criteria, which focuses on only 3 essential clinical manifestations, with that of Dutch Lipid Clinic Network (DLCN) FH criteria, which adopts a scoring system of multiple elements.