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dyslipidemia

dyslipidemia

1 9.5
A condition with abnormal amounts of fat in the blood, like cholesterol
  • noun
  • /ˌdɪsˌlɪpɪˈdiːmiə/
  • Specialized
translation icon : dislipidemia
  • Regular exercise and a healthy diet can help prevent dyslipidemia and reduce the risk of heart disease.
  • hypertension and dyslipidemia
  • dyslipidemia and type 2 diabetes

Examples

  • Menopause 2006; 13:265-279. British Heart Foundation. Women and heart disease: reducing your risk, 2013. Agrinier N, Cournot M, Ferrieres J. (2009) Dyslipidemia in women after 50: age, menopause, or both?

    Academic text (2015)
  • Dyslipidemia is the most important modifiable risk factor for atherosclerosis.

    Blog text (22)
  • But to date no real evidence that dyslipidemia of any sort will predict expansion.

  • In fact, HTN and dyslipidemia were found to be significant protectors from complications.

    Academic text (2007)
  • Anamnesis revealed that the woman had been suffering from hypertension, obesity, and dyslipidemia for 10 years.

    Academic text (2007)
  • One was that patients who had dyslipidemia were significantly less likely to have vascular complications (OR = 0.269, P < .001).

    Academic text (2007)
  • When you're in that trouble, you get atherogenic dyslipidemia, and this is the low HDL, the bad ratios, the high particle counts.

  • Thus, loss of PLIN1 or CIDEC expression in humans, unlike in mice, results in ectopic lipid accumulation, dyslipidemia, and diabetes.

    Blog text (27)
  • It has been found that patients with cardiac syndrome X have a high prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors, such as smoking, dyslipidemia, obesity, and estrogen deficiency, which may trigger endothelial dysfunction 11.

    Academic text (2007)
  • Many people with dyslipidemia may require medication to manage their cholesterol levels effectively.

Synonyms

hyperlipidemia
vsdyslipidemia
  • Specialized
1 7.1

A condition with too much fat in the blood

is broader meaning abnormal lipid levels not only high
hyperlipaemia
vsdyslipidemia
  • UK
9.9

A condition with too much fat in the blood

is broader meaning abnormal lipid levels not only high
hyperlipoidaemia
vsdyslipidemia
  • UK
9.9

A condition with too much fat in the blood

is broader meaning abnormal lipid levels not only high
hyperlipemia
vsdyslipidemia
  • Specialized
9.5

A high level of fat in the blood

is broader meaning abnormal lipid levels not only high
hyperlipoidemia
vsdyslipidemia
  • Specialized
9.8

A condition with too much fat in the blood that raises the chance of heart disease

is broader meaning abnormal lipid levels not only high
lipemia
vsdyslipidemia
  • Specialized
9.9

A condition with a lot of fat in the blood

is broader meaning abnormal lipid levels not only high
hyperlipoproteinemia
vsdyslipidemia
  • Specialized
9.9

A condition with very high cholesterol and fat-carrying proteins in the blood

is broader meaning abnormal lipid levels not only high
lipidemia
vsdyslipidemia
  • Specialized
8.8

A condition with too much fat in the blood

is broader meaning abnormal lipid levels not only high
lipoidaemia
vsdyslipidemia
  • UK
9.9

Too much fat in the blood that can cause heart problems

is broader meaning abnormal lipid levels not only high
lipoidemia
vsdyslipidemia
  • Specialized
9.9

Too much fat in the blood that can damage the heart and blood vessels

is broader meaning abnormal lipid levels not only high

How Severe

lipidemia
  • Specialized
8.8
dyslipidemia
  • Specialized
1 9.5

Surface Forms

dyslipidemia singular
dyslipidemias plural

Morphology

dyslipidemia = lipidemia (semi-transparent) = dys + lipid + emia

Formed by prefixing 'dys-' to the medical noun 'lipidemia'; the combination is logically meaningful but uses medical/Greek combining forms unfamiliar to average learners.

Etymology

Dyslipidemia breaks into parts: dys- meaning 'bad' or 'abnormal', lipid meaning 'fat', and -emia meaning 'blood', like in anemia. So dyslipidemia literally means 'abnormal fats in the blood', which is why doctors use it for a condition with unhealthy levels of blood fats.