Familial Hypercholesterolemia

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accumulate on the lining on the membrane of arteries, and eventually sludge this tube enough to impair the flow of life giving blood to the end organ supplied by this blood vessel resulting in disease and serious impairment of that organ, eventually. It has been well proven that an excess of "good" cholesterol- HDL, helps to preserve the integrity of the blood arterial lining of blood vessels preventing the occurring of impairment of flow of blood to its end organ.
In , afflicted individuals of a given family spontaneously manufacture excess, sometimes huge amounts, of cholesterol which accelerates the tendency to impair the flow of blood throughout the body arteries. The most commonly affected organs with sometimes serious or fatal consequences are the arteries in the brain, and the arteries of the heart. If an artery being saturated and clogged with cholesterol blocks the tissue beyond the accumulation that tissue becomes damaged and may die with resultant illness. Because ...

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