{"id":229047,"date":"2026-01-14T21:25:41","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T03:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/familial-hypercholesterolemia-screening-in-childhood-and-early-adulthood-a-cost-effectiveness-study"},"modified":"2026-01-14T21:25:41","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T03:25:41","slug":"familial-hypercholesterolemia-screening-in-childhood-and-early-adulthood-a-cost-effectiveness-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/familial-hypercholesterolemia-screening-in-childhood-and-early-adulthood-a-cost-effectiveness-study","title":{"rendered":"Familial Hypercholesterolemia Screening in Childhood and Early Adulthood: A Cost-Effectiveness Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/familial-hypercholesterolemia-screening-in-childhood-and-early-adulthood-a-cost-effectiveness-study.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sequential childhood or early adulthood screening for familial hypercholesterolemia may lower lifetime CVD risk, but is unlikely to be cost-effective unless ongoing follow-up for elevated cholesterol is widely implemented.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>This study uses a computer model to estimate the cost-effectiveness of sequential familial hypercholesterolemia screening at age 10 or 18 years using 3 low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) thresholds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sequential childhood or early adulthood screening for familial hypercholesterolemia may lower lifetime CVD risk, but is unlikely to be cost-effective unless ongoing follow-up for elevated cholesterol is widely implemented. This study uses a computer model to estimate the cost-effectiveness of sequential familial hypercholesterolemia screening at age 10 or 18 years using 3 low-density lipoprotein cholesterol [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}