Biomedicine - Lowering LDL - Not only how low, but how long?

被引:157
作者
Brown, MS [1 ]
Goldstein, JL [1 ]
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[1] Univ Texas, SW Med Ctr, Dept Mol Genet, Dallas, TX 75390 USA
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10.1126/science.1125884
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O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
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07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要
People with a mutation in a proteolytic enzyme are at a substantially lower risk for coronary heart disease because of their lifelong reduction of plasma low-density lipoprotein.
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