Pure hypercholesterolemia or familial hypercholesterolemia is a condition where a person has high cholesterol levels due to a genetic abnormality. While high cholesterol is often the result of eating ...

Homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia is characterized by premature cardiovascular disease caused by markedly elevated levels of low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol. This disorder is ...

Familial hypercholesterolemia is characterized by an elevated level of low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol and an increased risk of premature atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease. Monoclonal ...

Hypercholesterolemia is a type of hyperlipidemia, even though some use the terms interchangeably. Hyperlipidemia refers to raised levels of fats in the blood and hypercholesterolemia refers to high ...

Hypercholesterolemia impact on cardiovascular outcomes is explored by a key opinion leader. Erin Michos, MD, MHS: [CLEAR Outcomes is] 1 more trial that shows that nonstatin therapy lowers LDL ...

High "bad" cholesterol, or hypercholesterolemia, affects about 10% of adults in the United States and about 7% of youth, according to government statistics. Genetics are one major reason for high ...

"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 ...

Familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) is an inherited condition that can cause a person to have high levels of low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol. FH can put a person at a higher risk 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 ...

We describe a series of cases of extreme hypercholesterolemia mediated by lipoprotein X in patients with chronic graft-versus-host disease of the liver after an allogeneic bone marrow transplant. All ...