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 ...

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 ...

Haupt is a health and wellness editor at TIME. Haupt is a health and wellness editor at TIME. One sunny day in Los Angeles, Katherine Wilemon was gardening when she developed crushing chest pain, as ...

If your pediatric patient is overweight and has a family history of high cholesterol or heart disease, it may be worth screening for familial hypercholesterolemia (FH). FH is an inherited disorder ...

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 ...

Most people associate high cholesterol with an unhealthy diet and a sedentary lifestyle—a condition that develops over many years and you only need to worry about as you get older. However, this isn't ...

In the United States, one in every 250 people has inherited a genetic variant that leads to dangerously high cholesterol levels from birth. If high cholesterol isn't lowered early, people with this ...

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) is a common disorder that causes premature coronary artery disease. Screening ...

The American Journal of Preventive Cardiology (AJPC) is proud to announce the publication of a landmark multinational study examining sex-based differences in homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia ...

She struggled with high cholesterol in her 20s despite working out and eating right. It wasn't until her 30s she found out ...