Background. Hypercholesterolemia is a risk factor for atherosclerosis and cardiovascular disease; it also significant contributor to mortality from major adverse events. Medical nutrition therapy proper physical activity level are all important parts of prevention strategy patients with familial hypercholesterolemia (FH). The aim our study was determine the impact Cardiovascular Health Integrat...

familial hypercholesterolemia (fh) is an autosomal co-dominant disorder of lipid metabolism, caused by mutations in ldl receptor gene. the penetrance of fh is almost 100%, meaning that half of the offspring of affected parents born with disease. the patients are at risk of premature coronary heart disease (chd). there is no report about the molecular basis of fh in iran. identification of mutat...

Familial clustering of venous thromboembolism (VTE) was described as far back as 1905 by Briggs. Although Egeberg discovered inherited deficiency of antithrombin in 1965, it was not until Dahlbäck discovered resistance to activated protein C in 1993 that it became clear that genetic factors are common risk factors of VTE. Several genes have been linked to familial aggregation of VTE and genome-...

Pradimicin S was isolated from the culture filtrate of Actinomadura spinosa AA0851. NMR and MS analyses proved that pradimicin S is the 3'-O-(3''-O-sulfo-beta-D-glucopyranosyl) analog of pradimicin A, a new member of the pradimicin family of antibiotics. Stereochemical assignment was made by correlating pradimicin S with pradimicin L.

Hypercholesterolemia has been suggested to have direct negative effects on myocardial function due to increased reactive oxygen species (ROS) generation and increased myocyte death. Mitochondrial permeability transition (MPT) is a significant mediator of cell death, which is enhanced by ROS generation and attenuated by exercise training. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect o...

The prevalence of familial hypercholesterolaemia (FH) is significantly higher in the Afrikaans speaking population (Afrikaners) of South Africa than reported in most other populations. A founder gene effect has been proposed to explain the high FH frequency, implying that the same low density lipoprotein (LDL) receptor gene defect is present in the majority of affected Afrikaners. By using DNA ...

Neisseria meningitidis is a leading cause of sepsis and meningitis. The bacterium recruits factor H (fH), a negative regulator of the complement system, to its surface via fH binding protein (fHbp), providing a mechanism to avoid complement-mediated killing. fHbp is an important antigen that elicits protective immunity against the meningococcus and has been divided into three different variant ...