NOUN
- congenital disorder characterized by high levels of cholesterol and early development of atherosclerosis
How To Use familial hypercholesterolemia In A Sentence
- One such condition includes homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia, which is rarer than the heterozygous form. The Seattle Times
- Brown and Goldstein have discovered that the underlying mechanism to the severe hereditary familial hypercholesterolemia is a complete, or partial, lack of functional LDL-receptors. Physiology or Medicine 1985 - Press Release
- The genetic fault, which causes familial hypercholesterolemia, can shorten life expectancy by 20 to 30 years. The Sun
- Objective : To study the pathogenesis of a homozygous patient with familial hypercholesterolemia.
