Homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia
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Roy Beigel; Yitzhak Beigel
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Article
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2009
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract Familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) is an autosomal dominant disease. Homozygous FH (HFH) manifests with severe hypercholesterolemia since birth (cholesterol levels >5β6 the upper normal limit), which, if untreated, leads to early onset accelerated atherosclerosis and premature coronary