High cholesterol has no symptoms. A blood test is the only way to detect if you have it. High cholesterol has no symptoms. A blood test is the only way to detect if you have it. High cholesterol can cause a dangerous accumulation of cholesterol and other deposits on the walls of your arteries (atherosclerosis). […]
Hyperlipidemia is an imbalance of cholesterol in your blood caused by a combination of having too much LDL cholesterol and not enough HDL cholesterol to clear it up. There are two main classifications of hyperlipidemia: familial and acquired. The familial type stems from genes you inherit from your parents. The acquired type is the result […]
Hyperlipidemia, also known as dyslipidemia or high cholesterol, means you have too many lipids (fats) in your blood. Your liver creates cholesterol to help you digest food and make things like hormones. But you also eat cholesterol in foods from the meat and dairy aisles. As your liver can make as much cholesterol as you need, the […]