Sentences with phrase «inherited hypercholesterolemia»

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

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.

Using this approach, they demonstrate that the pathological features of inherited hypercholesterolemia caused by PCSK9 mutations can be reproduced in a Petri dish.

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Inherited metabolic disorders, like familial hypercholesterolemia, alpha -1-antitrypsin deficiency, and glycogen storage diseases, involve defective genes that cause metabolic enzyme deficiencies and liver dysfunction.

Additionally, inherited metabolic disorders, like familial hypercholesterolemia, alpha -1-antitrypsin deficiency, and glycogen storage diseases, involve defective genes that cause metabolic enzyme deficiencies and liver dysfunction.

Mipomersen (Kynamro) reduces low - density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol by silencing a gene that produces apolipoprotein B - 100, a building block of LDL; the drug can treat familial hypercholesterolemia, an inherited disease that may cause heart attacks at an early age.

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.