In most adults, hyperlipidemia is caused by a combination of diet, lifestyle, and health issues. For example: Certain foods, such as red meats and fried foods, contain large amounts of saturated fat.

Hyperlipidemia is the medical name for high cholesterol. Too much cholesterol in your blood can lead to heart attack, heart disease, and stroke. Obesity can cause or worsen hyperlipidemia.

Hyperlipidemia also occurs in patients with autoimmune diseases. Immunosuppressant drugs are the leading cause of hyperlipidemia, with contributions from genetics, diabetes and renal disease.

About hyperlipidemia Hyperlipidemia is a disorder characterized by an excess of lipids or fats in the blood, affecting approximately 86 million adults (aged 20 and older) in the U.S.

There has been an increase in certain cardiometabolic risk factors and a decrease in others among adults in the United States in recent years.

Hyperlipidemia-related CVD AAMR rose from 36.33 in 1999 to 99.77 in 2019 despite a CVD-related general decline in mortality across the study period.

A total of 639,786 patients with hyperlipidemia died with a primary cause related with a CV outcome, for an overall age-adjusted mortality rate (AAMR) of 7.1 per 100,000.

A treatment for hyperlipidemia for mothers and newborns, which had been cut off due to worsening profitability in 2023, will be re-released. The Ministry of Health and Welfare and the Korea Health ...

Hyperlipidemia was identified in 1196 of the participants included in this study. The authors tested 5 different machine learning models to correctly predict the incidence of hyperlipidemia.

RAHWAY, N.J., June 09, 2025--Merck Announces Positive Topline Results from Phase 3 CORALreef Trials Evaluating Enlicitide Decanoate for the Treatment of Adults with Hyperlipidemia ...