Sentences with phrase «from hypercholesterolemia»

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An example comes from a patient with familial hypercholesterolemia — a disease that causes high blood levels of «bad» LDL (low - density lipoprotein) cholesterol because a cellular defect prevents the liver from absorbing LDL.

Reported today in Disease Models & Mechanisms, Karim Si - Tayeb and colleagues in the research group of Bertrand Cariou from l'Institut du Thorax, Nantes used an innovative approach to develop unique patient cell - based models of PCSK9 - driven hypercholesterolemia.

However, there are rare occurrences where high blood levels of LDL cholesterol result from a genetic defect called familial hypercholesterolemia (FH).

Hypercholesterolemia - prone mice that were engrafted with bone marrow obtained from homozygous or heterozygous Tet2 knockout mice had larger atherosclerotic lesions in the aortic root and aorta than did mice that had received control bone marrow.

A study from an international research team finds that familial hypercholesterolemia — a genetic condition that causes greatly elevated levels of LDL cholesterol throughout life — accounts for less than 2 percent of severely elevated LDL in the general population but also increases the risk of coronary artery disease significantly more than does elevated LDL alone.

Management of familial hypercholesterolemia: a review of the recommendations from the national lipid association expert panel on familial hypercholesterolemia.

The most effective diets ever used to cure people of common day illnesses, like coronary heart disease, type - 2 diabetes, hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, arthritis, and obesity minimize animal foods and require people eat the bulk of their calories from starches, including grains, legumes, and potatoes (foods forbidden to Paleo eaters).

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

Many doctors believe that most patients with familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) die from CHD at a young age.

(3) 75 % of dogs suffering from elevated cholesterol are hypothyroid dogs, a condition called hypercholesterolemia.