Dear Doctors: Can you please do a column about familial hypercholesterolemia? It is my diagnosis, and I would like you to explain it. My LDL is over 500. It is my understanding that there are ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Familial hypercholesterolemia is underdiagnosed and undertreated. A novel machine learning algorithm identified ...

Current genetic screening guidelines fail to identify most people with an inherited condition known as familial hypercholesterolemia that can cause dangerously high cholesterol and early heart disease ...

Heterozygous familial hypercholesterolemia (HeFH) is a genetic disorder a person can inherit from a parent. It can cause a person to develop dangerously high cholesterol levels. HeFH affects how a ...

If high cholesterol runs in your family, waiting for symptoms to show up could be a dangerous mistake. Cholesterol issues often develop silently, with no obvious signs until significant damage has ...

The German Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG) was commissioned by the Federal Joint Committee (G-BA) to assess the benefit of universal blood lipid screening for the early ...

"Medical Journeys" is a set of clinical resources reviewed by physicians, meant for the medical team as well as the patients they serve. Each episode of this journey through a disease state contains ...

Familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) is a genetic disorder and the most common primary lipid disorder of childhood, affecting 1 in 250-350 children. FH causes severely high low-density lipoprotein ...

Millions of different genes play a role in cholesterol levels. Most of those genetic variants have just a small impact. However, about 1 in 250 people have gene mutations that cause a severe form of ...

On day 1 of the Family Heart Global Summit, speakers highlighted the critical need for awareness, early diagnosis, and innovative treatment options for familial hypercholesterolemia, sharing ...

Dear Doctors: Can you please do a column about familial hypercholesterolemia? It is my diagnosis, and I would like you to explain it. My LDL is over 500. It is my understanding that there are ...