by Liu Jia, Chinese Academy of Sciences Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Hypercholesterolemia is a metabolic disorder commonly found in people with obesity. It has been reported as a risk factor in the development of the cancers derived from steroid-targeted tissues, such as breast and prostate cancer. However, little is known about the effects of hypercholesterolemia on...
By MATTHEW HERPER @matthewherper and DAMIAN GARDE @damiangardeAUGUST 14, 2019 Regeneron Pharmaceuticals (REGN) presented new data Wednesday showing a drug it developed can treat patients with a genetic disease that causes very high cholesterol levels. In homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia, or HoFH, patients can have levels of low-density lipoprotein of 500 milligrams per deciliter or more,...
