A study published in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology found that patients with familial hypercholesterolemia may have elevated risk for developing eating disorders.
“No previous studies have investigated risk of [eating disorders] in individuals with FH. The purpose of this study was therefore to investigate if individuals with genetically verified FH, who are likely to have received extensive diet- and lifestyle counselling, have a higher risk of incident [eating disorders] compared to age and sex matched controls,” Eli B. Urke, MSc, research assistant at the