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Certain dyslipidemias (high total or LDL level, low HDL level, increased total-to-HDL cholesterol ratio)
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(See "Secondary causes of dyslipidemia".) The primary dyslipidemias are associated with overproduction and/or impaired removal of lipoproteins (table 1).
Atorvastatin is used to treat dyslipidemias, which are disorders characterized by abnormal levels of lipids in the blood.
Dyslipidemias may be manifested by elevation of the total cholesterol, the "bad" low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol and the triglyceride concentrations, ...
Rodriguez-Oquendo A, Kwiterovich Jr PO. Dyslipidemias. In: Fernandes J, Saudubray J-M, van den Berghe G, Walter JH, eds. Inborn metabolic diseases: diagnosis and treatment. Germany: Springer; 2006:400-401.
Particularly for older persons with diabetes, the benefits gained from treating hypertension and dyslipidemias are potentially great since heart attacks and strokes are the leading causes of disability and death in this group.
For children who were treated with hematopoietic stem cell transplantation for acute leukemias when they were younger than 3 years, growth disturbances and dyslipidemias were the most frequently observed late sequelae (about 60%), ...
 See also: Cholesterol, Symptom, Diabetes, Stroke, Deficiency
  
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