Hypercholesterolemia

"Hypercholesterolemia" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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A condition with abnormally high levels of CHOLESTEROL in the blood. It is defined as a cholesterol value exceeding the 95th percentile for the population.

Descriptor ID	D006937
MeSH Number(s)	C18.452.584.500.500.396
Concept/Terms	Hypercholesterolemia Hypercholesterolemia Hypercholesterolemias High Cholesterol Levels Cholesterol Level, High Cholesterol Levels, High High Cholesterol Level Level, High Cholesterol Levels, High Cholesterol Elevated Cholesterol Cholesterol, Elevated Cholesterols, Elevated Elevated Cholesterols Hypercholesteremia Hypercholesteremias

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Hypercholesterolemia".

Diseases [C]
Nutritional and Metabolic Diseases [C18]
Metabolic Diseases [C18.452]
Lipid Metabolism Disorders [C18.452.584]
Dyslipidemias [C18.452.584.500]
Hyperlipidemias [C18.452.584.500.500]
Hypercholesterolemia [C18.452.584.500.500.396]

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Bar chart showing 43 publications over 13 distinct years, with a maximum of 6 publications in 2003 and 2008

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
2002	4	1	5
2003	3	3	6
2004	4	0	4
2005	1	1	2
2006	2	1	3
2007	0	1	1
2008	3	3	6
2010	3	0	3
2011	2	0	2
2012	2	0	2
2013	3	0	3
2018	2	1	3
2019	2	1	3

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Skolnik N. Treating Hypercholesterolemia in Older Adults-Reply. JAMA. 2019 08 20; 322(7):695-696.

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Wright AK, Kontopantelis E, Emsley R, Buchan I, Mamas MA, Sattar N, Ashcroft DM, Rutter MK. Cardiovascular Risk and Risk Factor Management in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus. Circulation. 2019 06 11; 139(24):2742-2753.

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Skolnik N. Reexamining Recommendations for Treatment of Hypercholesterolemia in Older Adults. JAMA. 2019 04 02; 321(13):1249-1250.

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Ang SM, Williams BK, Shields CL. Rings on the eyes, matters of the heart. Indian J Ophthalmol. 2018 04; 66(4):494.

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Karalis DG, Mallya UG, Ghannam AF, Elassal J, Gupta R, Boklage SH. Prescribing Patterns of Proprotein Convertase Subtilisin-Kexin Type 9 Inhibitors in Eligible Patients With Clinical Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease or Heterozygous Familial Hypercholesterolemia. Am J Cardiol. 2018 05 15; 121(10):1155-1161.

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Kusters DM, Braamskamp MJAM, Langslet G, McCrindle BW, Cassiman D, Francis GA, Gagne C, Gaudet D, Morrison KM, Wiegman A, Turner T, Miller E, Raichlen J, Martin PD, Stein EA, Kastelein JJP, Hutten BA. Response by Kusters et al to Letter Regarding Article, "Effect of Rosuvastatin on Carotid Intima-Media Thickness in Children With Heterozygous Familial Hypercholesterolemia: The CHARON Study (Hypercholesterolemia in Children and Adolescents Taking Rosuvastatin Open Label)". Circulation. 2018 02 06; 137(6):641-642.

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Beason DP, Tucker JJ, Lee CS, Edelstein L, Abboud JA, Soslowsky LJ. Rat rotator cuff tendon-to-bone healing properties are adversely affected by hypercholesterolemia. J Shoulder Elbow Surg. 2014 Jun; 23(6):867-72.

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Stitziel NO, Fouchier SW, Sjouke B, Peloso GM, Moscoso AM, Auer PL, Goel A, Gigante B, Barnes TA, Melander O, Orho-Melander M, Duga S, Sivapalaratnam S, Nikpay M, Martinelli N, Girelli D, Jackson RD, Kooperberg C, Lange LA, Ardissino D, McPherson R, Farrall M, Watkins H, Reilly MP, Rader DJ, de Faire U, Schunkert H, Erdmann J, Samani NJ, Charnas L, Altshuler D, Gabriel S, Kastelein JJ, Defesche JC, Nederveen AJ, Kathiresan S, Hovingh GK. Exome sequencing and directed clinical phenotyping diagnose cholesterol ester storage disease presenting as autosomal recessive hypercholesterolemia. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol. 2013 Dec; 33(12):2909-14.

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Acharya NK, Levin EC, Clifford PM, Han M, Tourtellotte R, Chamberlain D, Pollaro M, Coretti NJ, Kosciuk MC, Nagele EP, Demarshall C, Freeman T, Shi Y, Guan C, Macphee CH, Wilensky RL, Nagele RG. Diabetes and hypercholesterolemia increase blood-brain barrier permeability and brain amyloid deposition: beneficial effects of the LpPLA2 inhibitor darapladib. J Alzheimers Dis. 2013; 35(1):179-98.

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Ballantyne CM, Pitt B, Loscalzo J, Cain VA, Raichlen JS. Alteration of relation of atherogenic lipoprotein cholesterol to apolipoprotein B by intensive statin therapy in patients with acute coronary syndrome (from the Limiting UNdertreatment of lipids in ACS With Rosuvastatin [LUNAR] Trial). Am J Cardiol. 2013 Feb 15; 111(4):506-9.

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