Masatsune Ogura, Sachiko Okazaki, Hiroaki Okazaki, Hayato Tada, Kazushige Dobashi, Kimitoshi Nakamura, Keiji Matsunaga, Takashi Miida, Tetsuo Minamino, Shinji Yokoyama, Mariko Harada-Shiba
Transitional medicine refers to the seamless continuity of medical care for patients with childhood-onset diseases as they grow into adulthood. The transition of care must be seamless in medical treatment as the patients grow and in other medical aids such as subsidies for medical expenses in the health care system. Inappropriate transitional care, either medical or social, directly causes poorer prognosis for many early-onset diseases, including primary dyslipidemia caused by genetic abnormalities. Many primary dyslipidemias are designated as intractable diseases in the Japanese health care system for specific medical aids, as having no curative treatment and requiring enormous treatment costs for lipid management and prevention of complications...
March 26, 2024: Journal of Atherosclerosis and Thrombosis