Clinical features
The clinical features of polygenic hypercholesterolaemia are usually less severe than the autosomal dominant form:
- tendon xanthomata do not develop (occur in familial hypercholesterolaemia and familial defective apoprotein B-100)
- xanthelasmata
- premature arcus
- coronary heart diseae
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