Phrases with «familial hypercholesterolemia»

"Familial hypercholesterolemia" refers to a genetic condition where a person's body has trouble removing cholesterol, leading to high levels of cholesterol in the blood. It means that someone inherited a problem with their cholesterol levels from their family. Full definition

familial hypercholesterolemia

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A similar mutation, detected by S1 nuclease mapping of LDL receptor messenger RNA, occurred in a patient with familial hypercholesterolemia whose receptor also fails to be transported to the cell surface. (science.sciencemag.org)
That was for mipomersen, a medicine used to treat familial hypercholesterolemia, a hereditary condition that causes massive increases in LDL cholesterol. (fortune.com)
1) A genetic Condition called Familial Hypercholesterolemia which affects 1 in 500 people, where a person's liver expresses much less LDL receptors and is therefore unable to clear «used» cholesterol in LDL particles from the blood (ntoi.ie)
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