Familial dyslipidemic hypertension. Evidence from 58 Utah families for a syndrome present in approximately 12% of patients with essential hypertension. Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • Population-based sibships with essential hypertension diagnosed before the age of 60 years are being screened in Utah to find two or more hypertensive siblings with the same biochemical abnormality as a clue to an inherited cause for their specific type of hypertension. Among 131 hypertensive subjects in 58 sibships, concordant abnormalities in fasting serum lipid concentrations were observed in two or more siblings in 48% of the sibships. After adjusting for effects of antihypertensive medications, abnormal values reported in only 10% of the Lipid Research Clinics data were observed in 30% of patients for serum triglycerides, 19% for serum low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, and 39% for high-density lipoprotein cholesterol. More than one lipid level was abnormal in almost all concordant sibships, suggesting an association between hypertension and a syndrome of mixed lipid abnormalities, probably familial combined hyperlipidemia (renamed "familial combined dyslipidemia" because of common low high-density lipoprotein cholesterol levels). We conclude that familial dyslipidemic hypertension may be a specific syndrome with lipid abnormalities more severe than blood pressure elevations.

publication date

  • June 24, 1988

Research

keywords

  • Hyperlipidemias
  • Hypertension

Identity

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 0023890074

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1001/jama.259.24.3579

PubMed ID

  • 3373705

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 259

issue

  • 24