JCL Roundtable: diagnosis of severe familial hypercholesterolemia.

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The diagnosis of familial hypercholesterolemia is usually straightforward. The severely elevated low-density lipoprotein cholesterol and the occurrence of high concentrations of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol in the parents provide the diagnosis. The presence of tendon xanthomata is confirmation but not necessary. However, this relatively simple picture becomes much more complicated when one attempts to...

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