Article
Inheritance pattern of familial hypercholesterolemia and markers of cardiovascular risk
6 Jul 2013
Abstract excerpt
Studies in children and adults have resulted in conflicting evidence in the quest for the answer to the hypothesis that offspring from hypercholesterolemic mothers might have an increased cardiovascular risk. Previous studies might have suffered from limitations such as cohort size and clinical sampling bias. We therefore explored this hypothesis in large cohorts of both subjects with familial...