Familial hyperlipoproteinemia in an isolated part of Newfoundland

• Main Author: Anjilvel, Lily
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1973
• Subjects: Medical Practice; Baie Verte; Baie Verte Peninsula; Verte; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1946966; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/4750306

Of 102 members of two families living in the Baie Verte Peninsula, Newfoundland, 39 were found to have familial hyperlipoproteinemia. Their family trees were traced for six generations, and altered lipid patterns were detected in children as young as 8 years of age. Consanguineous marriages were not...