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 ...

14:35, Sat, Nov 21, 2020 Updated: 15:37, Sat, Nov 21, 2020 Xanthomas can indicate a genetic predisposition to high cholesterol. You'll need to check over your skin to see if you have these, but what ...

Eruptive xanthoma is considered a rare disease with an incidence of 18 out of 100,000. It can only be seen in 10% of patients ...

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 ...

High cholesterol, often symptomless, can manifest through skin changes like xanthelasma and xanthomas, indicating elevated levels or genetic conditions. These visible signs, detailed in the British ...

Let’s be real: When it comes to detecting heart disease risk, you probably aren’t checking your skin first. And why would you? Skin health and heart health are unrelated, right? Not quite, doctors say ...

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).

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 ...