hyperlipidaemia

/ ˌhaɪpəˌlɪpɪˈdiːmɪə /

noun

1. an abnormally high level of lipids, esp cholesterol, in the blood, predisposing to atherosclerosis and other arterial diseases

Example Sentences

Using biomarkers to identify multiple pathogenic processes, such as hypertension, hypercoagulability or hyperlipidaemia, allows physicians to provide the optimal combination of drugs.

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Idiopathic hyperglycaemia will no longer be considered as a disease in its own right, but as an outcome of networked processes contributing to the affluent phenotype of adiposity, hypertension, hyperglycaemia, hyperlipidaemia, and cancer.”

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Dermatologists should start assessing their psoriatic patients for cardiovascular risk factors, and doctors more generally should take psoriasis into account when defining therapeutic targets for conditions such as hypertension and hyperlipidaemia.

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