Familial hypercholesterolemia: Detect, treat, and ask about family
Nishant Shah, Haitham M. Ahmed, W.H. Wilson Tang
Abstract
), and others. Patients with these mutations have elevated plasma levels of LDL-C and, as a result, an increased risk of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease beginning in childhood, leading to significant risk of illness and death.
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