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. 2022 Feb 3;13:840797. doi: 10.3389/fgene.2022.840797

TABLE 1.

Characteristics of all studies included in the systematic review and meta-analysis.

Studies including more than one ethnicity
Study Author Year Country Source Mean age Sex, % FH criteria Sample size, N Total FH cases, N Total prevalence, % Ethnicities Prevalence and ethnicity %
NHANES de Ferranti et al. (2016) De Ferranti et al. 2016 United States GP 46.8 years F: 51.4 DLCN 36,949 148 0.4 Black, Latino, white, mixed/other Black: 0.46 Latino: 0.37 white: 0.40 mix./oth.: 0.28
M: 48.6
ELSA-Brasil Harada et al. (2018) Harada et al. 2018 Brasil GP HeFH: 55 years F: 54 DLCN 14,460 55 0.38 16% black, 53% white, 29% mixed Black: 0.67, white: 0.25, brown: 0.48
M: 46
The Cape Town Experience Firth and Marais (2008) Firth et al. 2008 South Africa (Cape Town) Patients from a lipid clinic HeFH: 44 years F: 53 Clinical equal to modified DLCN 4,494 1,029 23 Black, white, Asian colored Black: 4.90, white: 32.2, Asian: 19.8 mix./oth.: 17.2
M: 47
MyHEBAT FH Study, Malaysia Chua et al. (2021) Chua et al. 2021 Malaysia GP 53.7 years F: 62.6 DLCN 5,135 55 1.1 Malay, Chinese, Indian, Others Asian: 1.2%, Others: 0.4%
M: 38.4
The Young MI Registry Singh et al. (2019) Singh et al. 2019 United States Young adults with MI 45 years F: 19.1 DLCN 1,996 180 9 Black, hispanic/Latino, white, Asian, mixed/other Black: 9.8, Latino: 14.0.98 white: 8.79, Asian: 4.3 mix./oth. : 8.1
M: 80.9
Studies including one ethnicity
 Copenhagen City Heart Study, DK Tybjaerg-Hansen et al. (2005) Tybjærg-Hansen et al. 2005 Denmark GP 53 years F: 55 DLCN 9,255 15 0.17 100% white White: 0.17
M: 45
 Copenhagen General Population Study Benn et al. (2016) Benn et al. 2016 Denmark GP NA F: 55 Genetic 98,098 450 0.46 100% white White: 0.46
M: 45
 LIFE Child Health Cohort, GE Dathan-Stumpf et al. (2016) Dathna-Stumpf et al. 2016 Germany GP 0–16 years F:52.3 Clinical HeFH 2,571 6 0.23 Caucasian White: 0.23
M: 47.7
 MyCode cohort, US Abul-Husn et al. (2016) Abul-Husn et al. 2016 United States GP 61 years F: 59.2, M: 40.8 Genetic 43,979 172 0.39 98.4% Caucasian White: 0.39
 Allina Health ambulatory Facility, US Knickelbine et al. (2016) Knickelbine et al. 2016 United States GP FH:53 No FH: 54.1 years F: 55 Clinical National Lipid Assoc. Guidelines 391,166 841 0.21 90% white White: 0.21
M: 45
 Jiangsu Nutrition Study Wijesekera et al. (2014) Shi et al. 2014 China GP 57 years NA DLCN 9,324 26 0.28 Asian Asian: 0.28
 Kumamoto Health Care, Japan Ohta et al. (2002) Ohta et al. 2002 Japan GP 18 months NA Clinical HeFH family study 56,181 adj. size: 47,877 91 0.19 Asian Asian: 0.19
 Korean Meta. Syndrome Mortality Study Jung et al. (2018) Jung et al. 2018 Korea GP 44.3 years F: 42.6 MEDPED 502,966 540 0.11 Asian Asian: 0.19
M: 57.4

GP, general population; F, female; M, male; HeFH, heterozygous familial hypercholesterolemia; DLCN, Dutch Lipid Clinic Network Criteria; MEDPED, Make Early Diagnosis Prevent Early Death; NA, not available.