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Is there a way to prevent my children from inheriting familial hypercholesterolemia?
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Prevention: You can't prevent the inheritance of hypercholesterolemia because it is genaticicallty determined but your children can be treated with statins to control their cholesterol level.
Answered 3/21/2014
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