Background: Mutations in the LPL gene cause familial lipoprotein lipase deficiency. Symptoms of familial LPL deficiency usually begin in childhood and include abdominal pain, acute and recurrent ...

Pancreatitis reduced by nearly 50% after gene therapy to treat lipoprotein lipase deficiency Date: November 8, 2016 Source: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., Publishers ...

As in patients with GPIHBP1 deficiency, those with GPIHBP1 autoantibodies had low plasma levels of lipoprotein lipase. Three of the six patients had systemic lupus erythematosus.

During the first 18 months after treatment with alipogene tiparvovec, a gene therapy recently approved in Europe to treat lipoprotein lipase deficiency (LPLD), the first patient to receive the ...

Vitamin D deficiency was considered to be 25 hydroxyvitamin D (25OHD) below 20 ng/ml. Vitamin D deficiency was found to be significantly associated with an increase in atherogenic lipids and ...

26 Sep 2014. Researchers have connected the dots in a pivotal pathway that they believe may tip the balance toward Alzheimer’s disease. In a study published September 17 in Neuron, Guojun Bu at the ...

The lipoprotein (a) test — or Lp(a) test — determines the level of this lipoprotein in the blood, and its results are used to diagnose several diseases, especially those related to the heart.