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Clinical features of familial hypercholesterolemia.
Arteriosclerosis (Dallas, Tex.) - 1 Jan 2000
Yamamoto A, Kamiya T, Yamamura T, Yokoyama S, Horiguchi Y, Funahashi T, Kawaguchi A, Miyake Y, Beppu S, Ishikawa K
Abstract excerpt
The clinical consequences of familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) result from its metabolic peculiarities that persist from very early childhood, leading to the accumulation of cholesterol in the form of xanthomas in skin and tendons and atheromatous lesions in the arterial wall, in particular, in the aorta and the stem of coronary arteries. Plasma cholesterol concentration markedly increases during the suckling...
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