[Blood lipids as a factor of hereditary susceptibility to ischemic heart disease].

Examination of 166 families of the patients who had sustained myocardial infarction revealed aggregation of coronary heart disease in the families and the atherogenic shifts in the parameters of lipid turnover, which were caused by significant influences of genetic factors. The close relatives of the postinfarction patients were shown to display a large proportion of monogenic forms of hyperlipoproteinemias.