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[ 11 ] observed an association between carotid atherosclerosis and the C148T polymorphism in a population-based cross-sectional study of persons with normal neurologic status.
The human disorder of sitosterolemia, also known as phytosterolemia (MIM 210250), is an autosomal recessive disorder characterized by the marked elevation of plasma phytosterols e.g. β-sitosterol, campesterol and stigmasterol [ 1 2 ] . Hypercholesterolemia primarily during childhood, accelerated atherosclerosis in some adult patients leading to premature death, as well a hemolytic anaemia, arthralgias and tendon and tuberous xanthoma formations are other clinical features.
This would suggest their greater utility in being more accurate markers of disease, particularly given C-reactive protein's increasingly apparent role in the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis.
Various systems have been used to classify subtypes of ischemic stroke [ 50 ] . For example, the Trial of ORG10172 in Acute Stroke Treatment (TOAST) investigators classified stroke into large-artery atherosclerosis, cardioembolism, small-vessel occlusion, stroke of other etiology, and stroke of undetermined etiology [ 51 ] . Uncertainty exists as to whether the clinical heterogeneity of the ischemic stroke phenotype relates to heterogeneity in genetic risk factors.
High levels of serum cholesterol and low density lipoprotein (LDL) have been associated with the genesis of atherosclerosis, a leading cause of cardiovascular diseases that affect a large number of people all over the world.
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