What symptoms indicate high blood lipids?

Our current unreasonable diet structure and lack of exercise have caused many of our friends to suffer from the "three highs", which refers to high blood pressure, high blood sugar and high blood lipids. We know that high blood pressure can be measured with instruments, so how should we know if we have high blood lipids? In addition to going to the hospital to check whether we have high blood lipids, is there any other way to know whether we have high blood lipids?

If you want to know whether you have high blood lipids, we can detect it based on some symptoms of high blood lipids. There are many symptoms of high blood lipids, such as dizziness, angina pectoris, and fatigue.

The general symptoms of high blood lipids are not obvious. In most cases, patients with high blood lipids do not feel the condition themselves. Most of the time, the condition is discovered during a physical examination or when doing other disease tests.

However, if you observe carefully, you can also find some clues, such as dark tongue, ecchymosis, numbness of limbs or fingers, etc., which show that it is related to changes in whole blood viscosity, plasma specific viscosity, red blood cell aggregation index, and reduced viscosity. Some people have xanthomas on their faces (lipomas can cause two yellow spots on the eyelids). These symptoms are all symptoms of hyperlipidemia, which can be divided into the following five aspects:

Symptoms of high blood lipids

Mild hyperlipidemia usually does not cause any discomfort, but the absence of symptoms does not mean that blood lipids are not high. Regularly checking blood lipids is crucial.

Symptoms of high blood lipids

The general symptoms of hyperlipidemia are mostly: dizziness, fatigue, insomnia, forgetfulness, chest tightness and palpitations, and may be confused with other diseases. Some patients have high blood lipids but no symptoms, and high blood lipids are often discovered during physical examinations. In addition, high blood lipids are often accompanied by symptoms of overweight and obesity.

The common symptoms of high blood lipids are: dizziness, fatigue, insomnia and forgetfulness

Symptoms of high blood lipids

When high blood lipids are severe, symptoms such as dizziness, headache, chest tightness, shortness of breath, palpitations, chest pain, fatigue, crooked mouth, inability to speak, and limb numbness will appear. It will eventually lead to serious diseases such as coronary heart disease and cerebral stroke, and the corresponding symptoms will appear.

Symptoms of high blood lipids

Long-term high blood lipids and atherosclerosis caused by lipid deposition in the vascular endothelium can cause coronary heart disease and peripheral arterial disease, etc., manifested as angina pectoris, myocardial infarction, stroke and intermittent claudication (pain after limb movement).

Symptoms of high blood lipids

A small number of patients with hyperlipidemia may also experience corneal arcus and lipidemic fundus changes. Corneal arcus is also called senile ring. If it occurs in people under 40 years old, it is often accompanied by hyperlipidemia, especially familial hypercholesterolemia, but it is not very specific.

The fundus changes caused by symptoms of hyperlipidemia are due to the refraction of light caused by the precipitation of large-grained lipoproteins rich in triglycerides on the small arteries of the fundus. They are often caused by very severe hypertriglyceridemia accompanied by the characteristic manifestations of chylomicronemia.

Since the symptoms of high blood lipids are difficult to detect, experts recommend that normal people should check their blood lipids every two years. People over 40 years old should have their blood lipids checked at least once a year; people with a family history, obesity, long-term excessive sugar intake, long-term smoking, alcoholism, long-term sitting, irregular lifestyle, easily agitated, often in a state of mental tension, already have cardiovascular disease (coronary heart disease, hypertension, cerebral thrombosis), patients with hyperlipidemia, and those with early signs of hyperlipidemia such as xanthomas should have their blood lipids checked regularly under the guidance of a doctor.

Above we introduced what the three highs are. We know that high blood lipids are caused by unreasonable diet. We can not only go to the hospital to check whether we have high blood lipids, but also observe some symptoms of high blood lipids, because many symptoms can suggest that our blood lipids are already high.