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 ...

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 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, ...

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 ...

High cholesterol, often symptomless initially, can manifest through subtle signs like tendon xanthomas, leg pain during walking, and yellow eyelid deposits. Numbness in limbs, dizziness, or slurred ...

High cholesterol, increasingly affecting younger individuals due to poor lifestyle choices and genetics, often presents no obvious symptoms. Early warning signs include yellow deposits around the eyes ...

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 ...

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 ...

A 32-year-old woman with a history of endoscopic mucosal resection for colon adenoma 2 years earlier visited our hospital for examination of incidentally elevated tumor markers (CA19-9, 43.5 U/ml).

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 ...