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  2. Dyslipidemia - Wikipedia

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    Dyslipidemia is a metabolic disorder characterized by abnormally high or low amounts of any or all lipids (e.g. fats, triglycerides, cholesterol, phospholipids) or lipoproteins in the blood. [1] Dyslipidemia is a risk factor for the development of atherosclerotic cardiovascular diseases , [ 1 ] which include coronary artery disease ...

  3. Hypercholesterolemia - Wikipedia

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    Hypercholesterolemia, also called high cholesterol, is the presence of high levels of cholesterol in the blood. [1] It is a form of hyperlipidemia (high levels of lipids in the blood), hyperlipoproteinemia (high levels of lipoproteins in the blood), and dyslipidemia (any abnormalities of lipid and lipoprotein levels in the blood).

  4. Lipidology - Wikipedia

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    These are often seen at higher than expected and necessary levels in the body due to food uptake, family history, and a person's metabolic rate. There is a correlation between these increased levels and stroke, heart attack, and mortality. [11] Lovastatin is used to treat cardiovascular disease

  5. Hyperlipidemia - Wikipedia

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    Hyperlipidemia is abnormally high levels of any or all lipids (e.g. fats, triglycerides, cholesterol, phospholipids) or lipoproteins in the blood. [2] The term hyperlipidemia refers to the laboratory finding itself and is also used as an umbrella term covering any of various acquired or genetic disorders that result in that finding. [3]

  6. Seven Countries Study - Wikipedia

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    The Seven Countries Study suggested that the risk and rates of heart attack and stroke (CVR), both at the population level and at the individual level, correlated directly and independently to the level of total serum cholesterol, in seven sampled out countries. It demonstrated that the correlation between blood cholesterol level and coronary ...

  7. Hypolipoproteinemia - Wikipedia

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    Hypolipoproteinemia, hypolipidemia, or hypolipidaemia (British English) is a form of dyslipidemia that is defined by abnormally lowered levels of any or all lipids and/or lipoproteins in the blood. It occurs in genetic disorders (e.g. hypoalphalipoproteinemia , hypobetalipoproteinemia ), malnutrition , malabsorption , wasting disease , cancer ...

  8. 1973 oil crisis - Wikipedia

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    After it was implemented, the embargo caused an oil crisis, or "shock", with many short- and long-term effects on the global economy as well as on global politics. [3] The 1973 embargo later came to be referred to as the "first oil shock" vis-à-vis the "second oil shock" that was the 1979 oil crisis, brought upon by the Iranian Revolution.

  9. Oil crisis - Wikipedia

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    Oil crisis or oil shock may refer to: Abadan Crisis ("Iran Oil Crisis") of 1951–1954, nationalization, coup, and de-nationalisation in Iran; 1970s energy crisis. 1973 oil crisis, the first worldwide oil crisis, in which prices increased 400%; 1979 oil crisis, in which prices increased 100%; 1990 oil price shock (the "mini oil-shock"), in ...