Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Familial hypercholesterolemia is underdiagnosed and undertreated. A novel machine learning algorithm identified ...

Dear Doctors: Can you please do a column about familial hypercholesterolemia? It is my diagnosis, and I would like you to explain it. My LDL is over 500. It is my understanding that there are ...

For years, father of two Peter Martini experienced subtle symptoms that never seemed serious enough to raise alarm, but in ...

The experimental treatment would use CRISPR, a gene-editing tool likened to biological scissors, to make precise cuts in the ...

Current genetic screening guidelines fail to identify most people with an inherited condition known as familial hypercholesterolemia that can cause dangerously high cholesterol and early heart disease ...

Heterozygous familial hypercholesterolemia (HeFH) is a genetic disorder a person can inherit from a parent. It can cause a person to develop dangerously high cholesterol levels. HeFH affects how a ...

Familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) is a genetic disorder and the most common primary lipid disorder of childhood, affecting 1 in 250-350 children. FH causes severely high low-density lipoprotein ...

The German Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG) was commissioned by the Federal Joint Committee (G-BA) to assess the benefit of universal blood lipid screening for the early ...

Findings from the APH-19 trial showed lomitapide-treated patients experienced a 49% mean reduction in LDL-C from baseline at week 24. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has expanded the approval ...

Learn how family history can impact heart health and which essential questions you should ask your doctor about genetic risks, screenings, and preventive care.