LDL cholesterol increases plaque in arteries, which tightens blood vessels and limits blood flow to organs. This is why it is ...

A 46-year-old man with obesity, hypertension, hyperlipidemia and bipolar disorder presented with a rash (Figure 1) accompanied by ongoing excessive urine production, excessive thirst and blurred ...

A thin young man in his early 20s presented with multiple yellowish skin lesions on his face, trunk and limbs, which had first appeared during his prepubertal years. A detailed history, thorough ...

When you have excess LDL cholesterol in the blood, it can lead to heart attack, stroke, and other cardiovascular problems.

High cholesterol symptoms: The 'important sign' of extremely high levels on your hand HIGH cholesterol is often branded the "invisible" condition because it doesn't tend to present symptoms. However, ...

Cholesterol deposits are generally painless, and they can occur in many places on the body but are most common around the eyelids. They often indicate that a person is at higher risk of certain health ...

High cholesterol is medically recognised as a condition with no clinical manifestations, meaning it can only be diagnosed when evidence from a blood test has been obtained. The longer the condition is ...

Do you have yellowish patches near your eyes or small lumps on your skin? You might wonder if these are xanthelasma or xanthoma. Both are skin conditions caused by fat building up under the skin, but ...

In the general population, palmar xanthomas are a characteristic of type III dysbetalipoproteinemia (type III), an atherogenic lipid disorder characterized by the presence of very low-density ...

A 26-year-old man with a history of uncontrolled hyperlipidemia presented with a six-month history of painful, multiple papules on his chest, back and limbs. The two-year-old tattoos on his right leg ...

High cholesterol often goes unnoticed, since it does not cause too many "visible" symptoms, or even non-visible ones such as weakness, lethargy etc. However, the condition is almost always directly ...

Charles P. Vega, MD: A 55-year-old woman comes to see her primary care physician with a chief complaint of "What are all these bumps I see all over?" She has noted an increasing number of asymptomatic ...