Posts Tagged ‘mutations’

July 7th, 2014

Selections from Richard Lehman’s Literature Review: July 7th

This week’s topics include the effect of patients’ risks and preferences on health gains with plasma glucose level lowering in type 2 diabetes, a meta-analysis of revascularization vs. medical treatment in patients with stable CAD, and more.


October 13th, 2010

Sequencing Study Identifies Gene Mutations Tied to Hypolipidemia

By sequencing all protein-coding regions of the genome in two people with combined hypolipidemia, researchers have identified a gene that may lead to a new method to lower LDL cholesterol. The report by Kiran Musunuru and colleagues, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, has its origins in a study started in 1994 of […]