Sentences with phrase «inherited high cholesterol»

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In September Michael Skinner of Washington State University announced that his lab rats inherit, epigenetically, their parents» propensity for a variety of humanlike diseases, including breast cancer, kidney disease, and high cholesterol.

A study in rats suggests that exposure to environmental toxins could be contributing to an inherited vulnerability to common diseases like breast cancer and high cholesterol.

Among the gene variants modern humans inherited from Neandertals are ones associated with higher cholesterol, increased belly fat, rheumatoid arthritis and schizophrenia, researchers learned from analysis of the new Neandertal DNA.

Children with inherited high levels of cholesterol who receive cholesterol - lowering statins in their early years have a lower risk of coronary heart disease than their affected parents, according to research presented at the American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions 2013.

Extra note: see this recent ECCRI paper on circulating progenitor cells in people who have inherited very high cholesterol.

An example of this kind of medication is mipomersen, an antisense molecule already available for the treatment of inherited conditions that cause high cholesterol levels.

Guidelines on cholesterol are beginning to change, and we now know that high cholesterol over 200 (Again, over 300 may indicate inherited hypercholesterolemia or excessive inflammation) isn't an accurate predictor of heart disease.

Where the reporting of this issue appears to be lacking is the consideration that must be given to those people who have «familial hypercholesterolemia» — the inherited tendency to high cholesterol.

-- Poor blood circulation, lack of physical activity, diet high in refined sugar and other refined products, increased blood levels of cholesterol and triglycerides, inherited genetic predispositions, high blood pressure may also contribute to aneurysm;

My mom has ALZH and has always had high cholesterol They say I inherited It.

Canine hyperlipidemia: Some dogs inherit a Schnauzer parent's tendency towards high levels of fats or lipids in the blood, including elevated levels of cholesterol and triglycerides.

A few pets are just born with a tendency to high blood cholesterol and triglycerides (primary or inherited hypercholesterolemia or dyslipidemia).