Introduction — This topic includes links to society and government-sponsored guidelines from selected countries and regions around the world. We will update these links periodically; newer versions of some guidelines may be available on each society's website. Some societies may require users to log in to access their guidelines.
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Links to related guidelines are provided separately:
●(See "Society guideline links: Lipid disorders in adults".)
●(See "Society guideline links: Hypertension in children".)
●(See "Society guideline links: Obesity in children".)
●(See "Society guideline links: Acute kidney injury in children".)
●(See "Society guideline links: Chronic kidney disease in children".)
●(See "Society guideline links: Nephrotic syndrome in children".)
●(See "Society guideline links: Kawasaki disease".)
●(See "Society guideline links: Diabetes mellitus in children".)
●(See "Society guideline links: Smoking cessation, e-cigarettes, and tobacco control".)
●(See "Society guideline links: Healthy diet in children and adolescents".)
Canada
●Canadian Cardiovascular Society (CCS): Position statement on familial hypercholesterolemia, update (2018)
United States
●American Heart Association (AHA): Scientific statement on cardiovascular risk reduction in high-risk pediatric patients (2019)
●AHA/American College of Cardiology (ACC)/American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation (AACVPR)/American Academy of Physician Assistants (AAPA)/Association of Black Cardiologists (ABC)/American College of Preventive Medicine (ACPM)/American Diabetes Association (ADA)/American Geriatrics Society (AGS)/American Pharmacists Association (APhA)/American Society for Preventive Cardiology (ASPC)/National Lipid Association (NLA)/Preventive Cardiovascular Nurses Association (PCNA): Guideline on the management of blood cholesterol (2018)
●American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (AACE) and American College of Endocrinology (ACE): Guidelines for management of dyslipidemia and prevention of cardiovascular disease (2017)
●AHA: Scientific statement on cardiovascular consequences of childhood secondhand tobacco smoke exposure – Prevailing evidence, burden, and racial and socioeconomic disparities (2016)
●US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF): Final recommendation statement on lipid disorders in children and adolescents – Screening (2016)
●AHA: Scientific statement on major depressive disorder and bipolar disorder predispose youth to accelerated atherosclerosis and early cardiovascular disease (2015)
●AHA: Scientific statement on the agenda for familial hypercholesterolemia (2015)
●National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI): Expert panel on integrated guidelines for cardiovascular health and risk reduction in children and adolescents (2012)
●NLA: Clinical guidance on familial hypercholesterolemia – Screening, diagnosis and management of pediatric and adult patients (2011)
●American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP): Clinical report for lipid screening and cardiovascular health in childhood (2008)
●AHA: Scientific statement on drug therapy of high-risk lipid abnormalities in children and adolescents (2007)
Europe
●European Society of Cardiology (ESC): Guidelines on cardiovascular disease prevention in clinical practice (2021)
●European Atherosclerosis Society (EAS) and European Federation of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (EFLM): Consensus-based recommendations from quantifying atherogenic lipoproteins for lipid-lowering strategies (2020)
●European Society of Cardiology (ESC)/EAS: Guidelines for the management of dyslipidaemias – Lipid modification to reduce cardiovascular risk (2019)
●EAS and EFLM: Consensus statement on quantifying atherogenic lipoproteins – Current and future challenges in the era of personalized medicine and very low concentrations of LDL cholesterol (2018)
●ESC/EAS: Consensus statement on proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin type 9 inhibitors – Practical guidance for use in patients at very high cardiovascular risk (2017)
●ESC/EAS: Practical clinical guidance for proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin type 9 inhibition in patients with atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease or in familial hypercholesterolaemia, update (2017)
●EAS: Familial hypercholesterolaemia in children and adolescents – Gaining decades of life by optimizing detection and treatment (2015)
●EAS: Plant sterols and plant stanols in the management of dyslipidaemia and prevention of cardiovascular disease (2014)
●EAS: Position paper on homozygous familial hypercholesterolaemia – New insights and guidance for clinicians to improve detection and clinical management (2014)
●EAS: Consensus statement on familial hypercholesterolaemia is underdiagnosed and undertreated in the general population – Guidance for clinicians to prevent coronary heart disease (2013)
United Kingdom
●National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE): Clinical guideline on familial hypercholesterolaemia – Identification and management (2008, updated 2019)
●Hyperlipidaemia Education and Atherosclerosis Research Trust United Kingdom (HEART UK): Statement on the management of homozygous familial hypercholesterolaemia in the United Kingdom (2016)
●NICE: Quality standard on familial hypercholesterolaemia (2013)
Japan
●[In English] Japan Atherosclerosis Society (JAS): 2017 guidelines for diagnosis and treatment of familial hypercholesterolemia (published 2018)
●[In English] JAS: 2017 guidelines for prevention of atherosclerotic cardiovascular diseases (published 2018)
●[In Japanese] JAS: Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of familial hypercholesterolemia (2017)
●[In Japanese] JAS: Pediatric familial hypercholesterolemia medical guide (2017)
●[In English] Japanese Circulation Society (JCS): 2013 guidelines for the diagnosis and management of cardiovascular sequelae in Kawasaki disease (published 2014)
