Keywords
Hyperlipidemia; blood lipids; cholesterol; lipoprotein
Abstract
Hyperlipidemia is disorder disease characterize by an excess on blood lipids which include cholesterol, triglyceride, low density lipoprotein and decrease in high density lipoprotein in blood stream. Hyperlipidemia is modifiable risk factor of atherosclerosis and other cardiovascular disease; hyperlipidemia may be primary or secondary type according to the cause of hyperlipidemia either high food intake rich of fat or as result of other disease or metabolic disturbances. Hyperlipidemia may affect different animals, diagnostic by laboratory measure of blood lipid indexes and the treatment of hyperlipidemia depend on reducing lipids on the blood stream.
Citation
Karam I, Yang YJ and Li JY. Hyperlipidemia Background and Progress. SM J Cardiolog and Cardiovasc Disord. 2017; 3(2): 1011s2.