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Polymorphism and peripheral levels of apolipoprotein(a) in polygenic hypercholesterolemia and combined hyperlipidemia.
Clinical and investigative medicine. Medecine clinique et experimentale - 1 Feb 1995
Shen G X, Mymin D, Dembinski T, Krahn A, Angel A
Abstract excerpt
This study demonstrates that peripheral apolipoprotein(a) [apo(a)] levels are higher in patients with polygenic hypercholesterolemia (PH) and combined hyperlipidemia (CH) than in controls. Levels of apo(a) inversely correlate with apo(a) isoform sizes. For a given apo(a) isoform, apo(a) levels are higher in PH and CH patients. Higher frequencies of smaller apo(a) isoforms were found in PH and CH patients than in...
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- Adult
- Aged
- Apolipoproteins
- Apoprotein(a)
- Coronary Disease
- Female
- Humans
