What Causes Hyperlipidemia?
Article updated and reviewed by Hubert Chen, MD, Associate Director of Medical Sciences, Amgen Inc. and Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine University of California, San Francisco on May 17, 2005.
Hyperlipidemia is an excess of fatty substances called lipids, largely
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