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Postprandial hypertriglyceridaemia in patients with Tangier disease.
Journal of clinical pathology - 1 Dec 2003
Kolovou G, Daskalova D, Anagnostopoulou K, Hoursalas I, Voudris V, Mikhailidis D P, Cokkinos D V
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BACKGROUND: Tangier disease (TD) is the phenotypic expression of rare familial syndromes with mutations in the ABCA1 transporter. TD results in extremely low high density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol and reduced low density lipoprotein cholesterol, with normal or mildly increased fasting triglyceride (TG) concentrations. Although there is a close relation between HDL cholesterol values and atherogenesis, the...
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