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Features of chinese patients with sitosterolemia.
Lipids in health and disease - 18 Jan 2022
Zhou Zhizi, Su Xueying, Cai Yanna, Ting Tzer Hwu, Zhang Wen, Lin Yunting, Xu Aijing, Mao Xiaojian, Zeng Chunhua, Liu Li, Li Xiuzhen
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Sitosterolemia is a lipid disorder characterized by the accumulation of phytosterols in plasma and organs, caused by mutations in the ABCG5 and/or ABCG8 genes. The disease is frequently misdiagnosed and mistreated as familial hypercholesterolemia (FH). To gain a better understanding of the disease, the current status of diagnosis and treatment of Chinese patients with sitosterolemia was reviewed and...
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