familial hypercholesterolemia
Americannoun
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A Mayo Clinic study reports that current genetic screening guidelines fall short in identifying the majority of individuals with familial hypercholesterolemia, an inherited condition that can lead to extremely high cholesterol and early heart disease.
From Science Daily • Dec. 8, 2025
Some human diseases, such as familial hypercholesterolemia, are caused by the failure of receptor-mediated endocytosis.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022
As a result, people with familial hypercholesterolemia have abnormally high levels of LDL cholesterol and, if left untreated, are up to 13 times more likely to develop coronary heart disease than someone without the mutation.
From Scientific American • Dec. 2, 2021
These include patients with the inherited condition familial hypercholesterolemia, which causes abnormally high levels of LDL, or atherosclerotic heart conditions.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 13, 2015
For others, statins just don't do the job -- including people with familial hypercholesterolemia, an inherited condition that causes very high LDL levels and heart attacks at an early age.
From US News • Aug. 27, 2015
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