Millions of different genes play a role in cholesterol levels. Most of those genetic variants have just a small impact. However, about 1 in 250 people have gene mutations that cause a severe form of ...

However, the association between familial hypercholesterolemia variants and coronary heart disease slightly weakened after adjusting for baseline low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) level and ...

The Family Heart Foundation, a leading research and advocacy organization, has shared results from an analysis of patients in its CASCADE FH Registry showing that children with homozygous familial ...

In the United States, 1 in every 250 people has inherited a genetic variant that leads to dangerously high cholesterol levels from birth. A new modeling study conducted by researchers at Columbia and ...

The Family Heart Foundation, a leading research and advocacy organization, completed an analysis of its large U.S. Family Heart Database TM showing that while the percentage of patients diagnosed with ...

If your pediatric patient is overweight and has a family history of high cholesterol or heart disease, it may be worth screening for familial hypercholesterolemia (FH). FH is an inherited disorder ...

Heterozygous familial hypercholesterolemia (HeFH) is a genetic disorder a person can inherit from a parent. It can cause a person to develop dangerously high cholesterol levels. HeFH affects how a ...

Eliot Brinton, MD, opens a discussion surrounding the treatment landscape for patients with homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia (HoFH). Eliot Brinton, MD: I’m Dr Elliot Brinton. I’m the president ...

Geisinger researchers have been awarded two grants from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health, to study risk factors associated with familial ...

"Medical Journeys" is a set of clinical resources reviewed by physicians, meant for the medical team as well as the patients they serve. Each episode of this journey through a disease state contains ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . When discussing high cholesterol with patients, physicians should consider the possibility of familial ...

Findings showed that the median age for developing cardiac disease was 8.9 years, and the earliest reported diagnosis of cardiac disease occurred at ages 2 and 3 years in children who underwent ...