21st century medicine helps Amish deal with rare, inherited illnesses
October 17, 2019
LA FARGE, WI – There is no car in the driveway, neither phone nor electricity in the house. Handmade clothes dry on the line.
It’s fall 2018, and La Farge physician James DeLine has brought us to talk with Barbara and Daniel Hochstetler, part of the large Amish population in Wisconsin’s Driftless Region.
Six of their 11 children live with siterosterolemia, an extremely rare disease that can cause joint damage, stroke or heart attack, due to accumulations of a plant-based fat akin to cholesterol.
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