Familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) is a genetic condition, not caused by lifestyle or diet, where a mutation affects genes responsible for cholesterol regulation, leading to high LDL (“bad”) ...
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 ...