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Clinical features

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The clinical features of polygenic hypercholesterolaemia are usually less severe than the autosomal dominant form:

  • tendon xanthomata do not develop (occur in familial hypercholesterolaemia and familial defective apoprotein B-100)
  • xanthelasmata
  • premature arcus
  • coronary heart diseae

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