TABLE 1.
Patient 1 | Patient 2 | Patient 3 | Patient 4 | |
Age | 37 | 34 | 59 | 40 |
Gender | Female | Female | Male | Female |
Weight (kg) | 56.5 | 72 | — | 71.4 |
Height (cm) | 155 | 156.9 | — | 172 |
Waist circumference (cm) | 73.7 | 81.5 | — | 66 |
Ethnicity | Northern European, Italian | French-Canadian | French-Canadian | German |
Total cholesterol (mmol/L) | 8.16 | 3.30 | 5.46 | 4.71 |
Triglyceride (mmol/L) | 2.52 | 1.01 | 4.48 | 5.13 |
HDL cholesterol (mmol/L) | 0.81 | 0.56 | 0.47 | 0.03 |
LDL cholesterol (mmol/L) | 6.20 | 2.42 | 3.28 | 3.54 |
apo A1 (g/L) | — | 0.59 | 0.60 | 0.09 |
apo B (g/L) | — | 0.81 | 1.33 | — |
Creatine kinase (U/L) | 79 | — | 78 | 113 |
Fasting glucose (mmol/L) | 4.0 | 5.4 | 5.3 | 4.7 |
Aspartate transaminase (U/L) | 23 | 20 | 21 | 33 |
Alanine transaminase (U/L) | — | 15 | 15 | 23 |
Alkaline phosphatase (U/L) | 46 | 62 | — | 61 |
Lp(a) (nmol/L) | — | — | 290 | 363 |
Co-morbidities | • heterozygous FH (LDLR NM_000527 p.V523M) | • obesity | • hypertension | • TIA at age 37 |
• minor carotid intimal thickening | • TIA | • cerebral arteriosclerotic microangiopathy | ||
• smoking | • hypertension | |||
• aortic valvular | • juvenile myoclonic epilepsy | |||
• stenosis | • diffuse nonHodgkin’s lymphoma stage III |
Values provided are from first presentation to specialist lipid clinic, or date first obtained. Lp(a) conversions from g/l to nmol/l were done following the conversion factor described by Brown et al. (41). FH, familial hypercholesterolemia; Lp(a), lipoprotein(a); TIA, transient ischemic attack.