Multifactorial chylomicronemia: keys to detecting severe forms.

Multifactorial chylomicronemia associated with multiple comorbidities, drugs and habits is much more common than familial chylomicronemia, an autosomal recessive disease that can be considered as "rare disease". Like the rest of hypertriglyceridemias, chylomicronemias could be classified as primary or monogenic and secondary in which, on the basis of polygenic predisposition, there is concomitant exposure to multiple triggering factors. In this brief revision, we will review its causes and management as well as the keys to its differential diagnosis of the Multifactorial Chylomicronemia.