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 ...

Photographs shared on social media (archived, archived, archived) in January 2025 claimed to show the palms of a man who experienced "yellow nodules" on his hands after eating only beef, butter and ...

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 ...

Diffuse normolipemic plane xanthoma is characterized by large, yellow-brown flat, xanthomatous skin lesions usually involving the eyelids, sides of the neck, upper trunk, buttocks, and the flexural ...

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 ...

High cholesterol is where you have too much cholesterol - a fatty substance - circulating in your blood. High levels of cholesterol raise your risk of heart disease by clogging up your arteries.

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, 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 ...