Individuals with high fasting triglyceride levels be evaluated for secondary causes of hyperlipidemia, including endocrine conditions and medications, and that treatment be focused on secondary causes.

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It causes relatively mild conditions in cattle and sheep, but where infection takes place during the early stage of pregnancy it can result in congenital disorders of lambs and calves, stillbirths and abortions.

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And even though smoking and obesity are the two leading preventable causes of death, drugs to treat these conditions have been flops.

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In the future, it may also be approved to treat other conditions such as macular degeneration, which causes loss of vision in the elderly and affects about 2 million Americans.

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Although the parents opted for termination on learning the news in most cases, if left to develop, these foetuses might have suffered from chromosomal conditions such as Down's syndrome and Turner's syndrome, which causes infertility in women.

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At this year's synod, which has just ended, the parishes urged the archdiocese to back the causes of the city's largely Latino force of caretakers and hotel workers, who want better pay and conditions.

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According to this theory it is the artificial lowering of interest rates and creation of excess credit by a central bank's monetary policy that causes investors to erroneously believe that economic conditions are better than they actually are, leading to an abundance of overconfidence.

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