Why the study?
What is the yield of cord blood screening for identifying familial hypobetalipoproteinaemia in newborns?
Population
10,440 Danish newborns, of which 266 had low values for very low-low density lipoproteins in cord serum
Design
Cohort
Authors
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Cord blood screening yields few FHBL diagnoses; leaves open its role in newborn detection and requires prospective validation before practice consideration.
What is the yield of cord blood screening for identifying familial hypobetalipoproteinaemia in newborns?
Cord blood screening of over 10,000 newborns identified 9 cases of familial hypobetalipoproteinaemia.
ANDERSEN et al. (1979) studied this question.
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