Doctors often overlook a potentially dangerous and deadly form of cholesterol disease that is inherited from the parents.

The condition is caused due to a defect in chromosome 19, thus making it difficult for the body to eliminate bad cholesterol in the bloodstream, leaving the sufferer at a high risk of narrowing of the arteries at a young age.
The researchers said that familial hypercholesterolemia is rarely diagnosed in time and is often detected only after the patient dies unexpectedly at a young age or develops heart disease.
Source-Medindia