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. 2022 Apr 11;13:872056. doi: 10.3389/fgene.2022.872056

TABLE 2.

Medical therapies.

Lipid-lowering therapy All Without pathogenic variants With missense variants With PTVs
(N = 1,050) (N = 385) (N = 277) (N = 388)
Statins (%) 1,025 (97.6%) 380 (98.7%) 265 (95.7%) 380 (97.9%)
Ezetimibe (%) 644 (61.3%) 198 (51.4%) 160 (57.8%) 286 (73.7%)
Colestimide (%) 243 (23.1%) 30 (7.8%) 70 (25.3%) 143 (36.9%)
Probucol (%) 2 (0.2%) 0 (0.0%) 1 (0.4%) 1 (0.3%)
PCSK9 inhibitor (%) 45 (4.3%) 3 (0.8%) 13 (4.7%) 29 (7.5%)
LDL apheresis (%) 2 (0.2%) 0 (0.0%) 0 (0.0%) 2 (0.5%)
Fibrates (%) 6 (0.6%) 3 (0.8%) 2 (0.7%) 1 (0.3%)
n-3 PUFAs (%) 10 (1.0%) 5 (1.3%) 1 (0.4%) 4 (1.0%)

PTV, protein-truncating variants; PCSK9, proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin type 9; PUFA, polyunsaturated fatty acid; LDL, low-density lipoprotein.