Summary and Conclusions Disaccharidase deficiency was demonstrated in the intestinal mucosa of a variety of malabsorption states, especially adult celiac disease (nontropical sprue).

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 ...

Learn what the lipoprotein (a) test is used for and what its results show about your heart health.

In overweight and obese children and adolescents, vitamin D deficiency is associated with early markers of cardiovascular disease, a new study reports.

LRP6 and free β-catenin were significantly lower in postmortem brain tissue from AD patients than age-matched controls. The researchers also found that Aβ42 and Aβ40 in soluble and insoluble brain ...

The work 'represents a very significant advance for improving nutrition through biofortification of vegetables such as lettuce, chard or spinach.' ...

Over a 6-year period, patients with the genetic disease lipoprotein lipase deficiency (LPLD) who received a single gene therapy treatment of alipogene tiparvovec had a marked reduction in the ...

In overweight and obese children and adolescents, vitamin D deficiency is associated with early markers of cardiovascular disease, a new study reports. The research results will be presented ...

EMA’s CHMP has informed Amsterdam Molecular Therapeutics (AMT) that its lipoprotein lipase deficiency (LPLD) candidate, Glybera, can’t be approved on the basis of existing clinical data.

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 ...