“…The resulting disulfide bond structures are again reduced to thiol groups so that the thiol/disulfide balance is maintained [ 7 ]. Diseases including diabetes mellitus [ 8 ], obesity [ 9 ], cardiovascular disease [ 10 ], hypertension [ 11 ], malignancy [ 12 ], rheumatic disease, chronic renal failure [ 13 ], Alzheimer's disease [ 14 ], chronic liver disease [ 15 ], cerebral ischemia [ 16 ], nasal polyposis [ 17 ], preeclampsia [ 18 ], uterine myoma [ 19 ], cataracts [ 20 ], chronic radiation exposure [ 21 ], and acute tonsillopharyngitis [ 22 ] have been assessed by the same method used in our study, and a close relationship with oxidative stress was detected. A strong association between familial hypercholesterolemia and premature atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease was established in a study conducted with 1,690 patients [ 1 ], and, in our study, we found that disulfide formation was elevated in patients with familial hypercholesterolemia.…”