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Clinical features of familial hypercholesterolemia in Japan in a database from 1996-1998 by the research committee of the ministry of health, labour and welfare of Japan.
Journal of atherosclerosis and thrombosis - 1 Jan 2004
Bujo Hideaki, Takahashi Kazuo, Saito Yasushi, Maruyama Takao, Yamashita Shizuya, Matsuzawa Yuji, Ishibashi Shun, Shionoiri Futoshi, Yamada Nobuhiro, Kita Toru
Abstract excerpt
Familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) is one of the most common primary hyperlipidemias, characterized by a heterozygous or homozygous phenotype for a severe serum low-density lipoprotein (LDL)-cholesterol level and advanced atherosclerosis, leading to coronary artery diseases (CAD). Various kinds of mutations in the LDL receptor gene responsible for the genetic disease have been identified since the human LDL...
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