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

被引：157
作者：
Brown, MS [1 ]
Goldstein, JL [1 ]
机构：
[1] Univ Texas, SW Med Ctr, Dept Mol Genet, Dallas, TX 75390 USA
来源：
SCIENCE | 2006年 / 311卷 / 5768期
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D O I：
10.1126/science.1125884
中图分类号：
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];
学科分类号：
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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页码：1721 / 1723
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