Fax Form Hypercholesterolemia Cardiology

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FH is also called familial hypercholesterolemia and it is a condition that results from the body's inability to clear high cholesterol from the blood. This results in startlingly high cholesterol levels. So, an ideal cholesterol is less than one hundred and thirty milligrams per deciliter. And in FH patients generally we see an LDL cholesterol over a hundred and ninety. Usually more like two hundred and twenty. And this very high cholesterol level is like a poison to the blood vessels that result in huge accumulation of fatty deposits and cholesterol deposits in the arteries that feed the heart and it leads to a much, much greater risk of heart attack or stroke. FH is a genetic condition. It's passed in families and if one parent has it then every child has a fifty percent chance of having FH. If you inherit a bad copy both from the mother and a bad copy from the father, that's called homozygous FH and it's actually even more serious. If FH has been identified in the family, then every