familial combined hyperlipidemia…

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coronary artery blockage, multiple lipoprotein-type hyperlipidemia, familial combined hyperlipidemia is an inherited disorder of high serum cholesterol, high blood triglycerides, condition have an increased risk of cardiovascular disease, disease is genetic, inherited, the specific defective genes, person's cholesterol, triglyceride levels, become elevated, teenage years, continue to be high throughout life, types of elevated lipoproteins, vary between affected family members, cholesterol deposits, in the skin, xanthomas, seen in other disorders of elevated lipoproteins, rarely seen in this disorder, disorder predisposes the person to greater risk of early coronary artery disease, heart attacks, the condition have a higher rate of obesity, glucose intolerance, condition is worsened by diabetes, alcoholism, hypothyroidism, risk factors, a family history of high cholesterol, early coronary artery disease, the most common disorder of increased blood fats that causes, early heart attacks, rare person who gets 2 defective genes is at much higher risk, early heart attack, due to very high blood fat, cholesterol, triglyceride, levels, obesity , chest pain, angina, family history of early heart attack, increased blood fats, no symptoms, elevated serum ldl, vldl, elevated total cholesterol, decreased, normal serum hdl cholesterol, elevated triglycerides, elevated apolipoprotein b100 test, pedigree analysis, parent, child, high blood fat, genetic testing is available, one type of familial combined hyperlilidemia, goal of treatment, reduce the risk of atherosclerotic heart disease, change what eat, tried, several months, drug therapy is added, diet changes include reducing total fat intake to less than 30%, the total calories consumed, saturated fat intake is reduced by decreasing the amounts of beef, chicken, pork, lamb, by substituting low-fat dairy products, full-fat ones, by eliminating coconut, palm oil, cholesterol intake is reduced by eliminating egg yolks, organ meats, further reductions in dietary fat recommended, initial trial period, dietary counseling, recommended to help people make these adjustments to eating habits, weight loss, regular exercise, aid in lowering cholesterol levels, drug therapy initiated, diet, exercise, weight loss efforts have not reduced the cholesterol levels after an adequate trial period, various cholesterol reducing agents, bile acid-sequestering resins, cholestyramine, colestipol, nicotinic acid, lovastatin, 'statin' drugs, gemfibrozil, probucol, probable outcome is related to early diagnosis, compliance, therapy, untreated people, at risk, shortened life span, due to heart attack, stroke, 2 defective genes has such high lipids that they, unlikely to be able to reduce risk of coronary artery disease to normal, at increased risk of heart attack despite medical therapy, a complication is early atherosclerotic heart disease, myocardial tissue death, due to lack of blood, infarction, fatty deposits, affect the blood vessels, brain causing an increase risk, stroke, experience warning symptoms of heart attack, screening total cholesterol, triglycerides was found to be high, a low-cholesterol, low-saturated fat diet in high-risk individuals, help to control ldl levels, screening of family members of people, familial combined hyperlipidemia, undertaken to facilitate early treatment, younger children, have mild hyperlipidemia, important to control other risk factors, early heart attacks, smoking, have this disease, genetic counseling, family members.