High LDL causes

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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Cafer Zorkun, M.D., Ph.D. [2]; Rim Halaby, M.D. [3]; Vendhan Ramanujam M.B.B.S [4]

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Life Threatening Causes

Life-threatening causes include conditions which may result in death or permanent disability within 24 hours if left untreated.


Common Causes

Causes by Organ System

Cardiovascular No underlying causes
Chemical/Poisoning Diterpenoids
Dental No underlying causes
Dermatologic No underlying causes
Drug Side Effect Atazanavir, azathioprine, bexarotene, calcineurin inhibitors, chlortalidone, corticosteroids, cyclosporine, desvenlafaxine, fish oil supplements, immunosuppressive agents, levonorgestrel, lopinavir, mycophenolate, nicotine, norgestrel, prednisone, progestin, rapamycin, rosiglitazone, sirolimus, thiazide, tocilizumab
Ear Nose Throat No underlying causes
Endocrine Androgens, dehydroepiandrosterone, growth hormone deficiency, hypercortisolism, hypothyroidism, polycystic ovarian syndrome, progestagens, subclinical hypothyroidism, testosterone
Environmental No underlying causes
Gastroenterologic No underlying causes
Genetic Acid sphingomyelinase deficiency, autosomal recessive hypercholesterolemia, familial combined hyperlipidemia, familial defective apolipoprotein B-100, familial hypercholesterolemia, hyperapobetalipoproteinemia, IL 28B polymorphisms, Niemann-Pick disease, polygenic hypercholesterolemia
Hematologic No underlying causes
Iatrogenic No underlying causes
Infectious Disease Gram negative bacillary bacteremia, H. pylori, small bowel bacterial overgrowth syndrome,
Musculoskeletal/Orthopedic No underlying causes
Neurologic No underlying causes
Nutritional/Metabolic Chenodeoxycholic acid, high carbohydrate diet, high saturated fat diet, omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids, polygenic hypercholesterolemia, primary hyperlipoproteinemia, primary hypolipoproteinemia type 1, selenium deficiency
Obstetric/Gynecologic Polycystic ovarian syndrome
Oncologic No underlying causes
Ophthalmologic No underlying causes
Overdose/Toxicity No underlying causes
Psychiatric No underlying causes
Pulmonary No underlying causes
Renal/Electrolyte Chronic kidney disease, nephrotic syndrome
Rheumatology/Immunology/Allergy Dysproteinemia, lipopolysaccharides, monoclonal gammopathy, paraproteinemia
Sexual No underlying causes
Trauma No underlying causes
Urologic No underlying causes
Miscellaneous No underlying causes

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