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 ...

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 ...

"Medical Journeys" is a set of clinical resources reviewed by physicians, meant for the medical team as well as the patients they serve. Each episode of this journey through a disease state contains ...

Scientists are rethinking how to treat a widespread genetic cholesterol disorder by targeting particle production instead of ...

September 24 celebrates Familial Hypercholesterolemia Awareness Day, which recognizes the importance of screening measures, education, and advocacy in a lesser-known, underdiagnosed cardiovascular ...

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

"Medical Journeys" is a set of clinical resources reviewed by doctors, meant for physicians and other healthcare professionals as well as the patients they serve. Each episode of this journey through ...

Clin Lipidology. 2014;9(1):101-118. In HeFH 3.75 g of colesevalam lowered LDL-C by 18.5% in adults when added to statin and ezetimibe and by 12.5% in childen either alone or with statin. Both ...