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ey0019.12-15 | Hyperlipidemia | ESPEYB19

12.15. Awareness, diagnosis and treatment of heterozygous familial hypercholesterolemia (HeFH) Results of a US national survey

DG Block RC, Bang M, Peterson A, Wong ND, Karalis

J Clin Lipidol. 2021 Sep-Oct;15(5):682-689. PMID: 34593357 doi: 10.1016/j.jacl.2021.09.045Brief summary: This online survey of cardiologists and primary care physicians, conducted by the National Lipid Association, revealed the need to improve awareness, knowledge and treatment of heterozygous familial hypercholesterolemia (HeFH).Comment: HeFH is an autosomal dominan...

ey0015.11-9 | The brain decides weight gain | ESPEYB15

11.9 Neural correlates of familial obesity risk and overweight in adolescence

S Carnell , L Benson , KY Chang , Z Wang , Y Huo , A Geliebter , BS Peterson

To read the full abstract: NeuroImage 2017; 159: 236-247The results of this study suggest that, compared to adolescents with a low risk, lean adolescents with a high familial obesity risk show a weaker activation of neural systems subserving attentional self-regulation in response to food-denoting words. These same changes were found in overweight or obese adolescents. It is interestin...