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Familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) is a common autosomal disorder that affects about one in 500 individuals in most Western populations and is caused by a defect in the low-density-lipoprotein receptor (LDLr) gene. In this report we determined the molecular basis of FH in 59 patients from 31 unrelated Brazilian families. All patients were screened for the Lebanese mutation, gross abnormalities ...

OBJECTIVE To determine the allelic frequencies of endothelial nitric oxide synthase (eNOS) and beta2-adrenergic receptor (ADRB2) genetic polymorphisms in a sample of Lebanese participants, and to test their association with an increase in the risk of hypertension. METHODS Endothelial nitric oxide synthase and ADRB2 genetic polymorphisms were studied in a case-control study that involved a sam...

RESULTS: Fifty-five participants (31 patients and 24 parents) completed all questionnaires, 98.2% preferred active involvement in therapeutic decision-making. The SDM-Q-9 scores, assessed by patients and physicians, were acceptable (mean 68 out of 100). However, the independently assessed OPTION-5 scores were significantly lower (mean 31 out of 100). In the consultations, physicians rarely aske...

Purpose – Recently, classification of Arabic documents is a real problem for juridical centers. In this case, some of the Lebanese official journal documents are classified, and the center has to classify new documents based on these documents. This paper aims to study and explain the useful application of supervised learning method on Arabic texts using N-gram as an indexing method (n1⁄4 3). D...

Little published information concerning the growth characteristics of Lebanese infants is available. Woodruff (1965) noted that 80 infants receiving 'well' child care, and presumably privileged socioeconomically, had a growth pattern identical to the Iowa Growth Charts. Less privileged infants grew similarly only in the first 4 to 6 months, and subsequently their growth performance was below pa...