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Severe hypertriglyceridemia in Norway: prevalence, clinical and genetic characteristics.
Lipids in health and disease - 12 Jun 2017
Retterstøl Kjetil, Narverud Ingunn, Selmer Randi, Berge Knut E, Osnes Ingvild V, Ulven Stine M, Halvorsen Bente, Aukrust Pål, Holven Kirsten B, Iversen Per O
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: There is a lack of comprehensive patient-datasets regarding prevalence of severe hypertriglyceridemia (sHTG; triglycerides ≥10 mmol/L), frequency of co-morbidities, gene mutations, and gene characterization in sHTG. Using large surveys combined with detailed analysis of sub-cohorts of sHTG patients, we here sought to address these issues. METHODS: We used data from several large Norwegian surveys that...
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