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Aug 23, 2025, 08:14
Sam Tsimikas: NAFCS Score as a Diagnostic Tool for Familial Chylomicronemia Syndrome in Clinical Practice
Sam Tsimikas, Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Diego, shared a post on X:
“A new paper is out in Lipid Journal validating the NAFCS score for patients with FCS (Familial Chylomicronemia Syndrome- i.e milky plasma) using the Balance genetic data. It will be an alternative method to make the diagnosis of FCS clinically.”
Read the full paper here.
Article: Brief communication: Strong concordance of the North American Familial Chylomicronemia Syndrome Score with a positive genetic diagnosis in patients from the Balance study
Authors: Alan S. Brown, Philippe Moulin, Andrew Dibble, Veronica J. Alexander, Lu Li, Daniel Gaudet, Joseph L. Witztum, Sotirios Tsimikas, Robert A.
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