What Is Hyperlipidemia?
5. Arteriosclerosis
As cholesterol flows through your blood vessels, it can occasionally begin to settle on the blood vessel’s walls. Here, it can begin to accumulate to become a condition known as atherosclerosis. This means that the cholesterols have built up to the point where the blood vessels start to become clogged.
Arteriosclerosis itself will not always cause symptoms; gradually getting worse as time goes by. When symptoms do show, they tend to include chest pain, fatigue, shortness of breath, muscle weakness, and confusion. Arteriosclerosis will sometimes worsen to the point where it can cause some extremely dangerous complications for the patient.
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