Low-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol Level Distributions Across Different Ages: Implications for Screening Children for Severe and Familial Hypercholesterolemia

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Population Health and Policy, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY (J.L.).
• ² Division of General Medicine, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY (B.K.B., A.E.M., Y.Z.).
• ³ Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Minneapolis (D.R.J., P.P.B., E.C.O.).
• ⁴ Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, OH (J.G.W.).
• ⁵ Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, OH (J.G.W.).
• ⁶ Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital and University of Cincinnati, OH (E.M.U.).
• ⁷ Richard A. and Susan F. Smith Center for Outcomes Research in Cardiology, Division of Cardiology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA (D.S.K.).
• ⁸ New York Academy of Medicine, New York (D.S.).
• ⁹ Department of Preventive Medicine (N.B.A., J.T.W.), Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL.
• ¹⁰ Division of Research (J.S.R.), Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland.
• ¹¹ Department of Cardiology (J.S.R.), Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland.
• ¹² Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine (J.T.W.), Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL.
• ¹³ Department of Medicine, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson (M.E.H.).
• ¹⁴ School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA (L.A.B.).
• ¹⁵ Department of Epidemiology, College of Public Health, University of Iowa, Iowa City (T.L.B.).
• ¹⁶ Department of Pediatrics, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora (S.R.D.).
• ¹⁷ Heart Research Group, Melbourne Children's Research Institute, Australia (T.D.).
• ¹⁸ Department of Pediatrics, University of Melbourne, Australia (T.D.).
• ¹⁹ Nuffield Department of Women's and Reproductive Health, Oxford University, England (T.D.).
• ²⁰ Department of Medicine (M.J., J.S.A.V.), University of Turku, Finland.
• ²¹ Division of Medicine (M.J., J.S.A.V.), Turku University Hospital, Finland.
• ²² Research Centre of Applied and Preventive Cardiovascular Medicine (O.T.R., N.K., C.G.M.), University of Turku, Finland.
• ²³ Department of Clinical Physiology and Nuclear Medicine (O.T.R.), Turku University Hospital, Finland.
• ²⁴ Centre for Population Health Research, University of Turku and Turku University Hospital, Finland (O.T.R., N.K., C.G.M.).
• ²⁵ Department of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis (A.R.S., J.S.).
• ²⁶ Menzies Institute for Medical Research, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia (A.J.V.).
• ²⁷ Department of Mathematics and Statistics (N.K.), University of Turku, Finland.
• ²⁸ Department of Clinical Chemistry, Fimlab Laboratories (T.L.), Tampere University, Finland.
• ²⁹ Finnish Cardiovascular Research Center (T.L.), Tampere University, Finland.
• ³⁰ Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology (T.L.), Tampere University, Finland.
• ³¹ Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Australia (C.G.M.).
• ³² Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA (S.D.d.F.).