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Date Time Role for GPs in heart-risk hunt GP clinics could be enlisted to help identify patients unknowingly at risk of a premature heart attack and early death due to an inherited condition, a Department of Health-funded study has found. The newly published research found that GP clinics could not only play a pivotal role in identifying patients with the condition familial hypercholesterolaemia (FH), but also in managing their ongoing treatment. Lead researcher and Notre Dame Professor of General Practice Research, Tom Brett said FH was a lifelong condition in which the liver’s ability to remove low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-cholesterol) – commonly known as ‘bad cholesterol’ – from the blood was severely impaired, increasing the patient’s risk of premature coronary heart disease.

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