KROK 1 2017 – Question 151 · KROK (Medicine) · Biological Chemistry
A 67-year-old man consumes eggs, pork fat, butter, milk and meat. Blood test results: cholesterol - 12,3 mmol/l, total lipids - 8,2 g/l, increased low-density lipoprotein fraction (LDL). What type of hyperlipoproteinemia is observed in the patient?
- A. Hyperlipoproteinemia type IV
- B. Hyperlipoproteinemia type IIb
- C. Hyperlipoproteinemia type IIa
- D. Cholesterol, hyperlipoproteinemia
- E. Hyperlipoproteinemia type I
Hint
Note which lipoprotein fractions the stem reports as raised and which are not mentioned, because the typing of hyperlipoproteinemias depends on that pattern.
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