The magnitude of the hypercholesterolemia of hypothyroidism is associated with variation in the low density lipoprotein receptor gene.

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To assess whether the variable extent to which patients with hypothyroidism become hypercholesterolemic was associated with variation in the genes for the low density lipoprotein (LDL) receptor or apolipoprotein-B, we investigated prospectively 52 patients with primary hypothyroidism treated with L-T4. There was significant reduction in cholesterol, high density lipoprotein cholesterol, LDL cholesterol, and...