Familial Hypercholesterolaemia: molecular and functional study of LDLR mutations

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) remains the most common cause of death globally. Dyslipidaemia is one of the most important risk factors that leads to CVD. It can be due to a monogenic condition or to polygenic/environmental causes as diabetes, obesity, tobacco use, excess of alcohol or reduced physica...

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Main Author: Pinto Pereira, Andreia Sofia (author)
Format: lecture
Language:eng
Published: 2017
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10400.18/4731
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorio.insa.pt:10400.18/4731