The following are the most important diseases or complications that may be contributed to by hypertriglyceridemia:
Eyes and ocular appendages (H00-H59).
- Visual disturbances
Endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E90).
- Somatopause, premature – due todegradation of triglycerides to free fatty acids (FA) and glycerol → suppression of growth hormone secretion (synonyms: somatotropic hormone (STH), somatotropin) as a feedback response by free fatty acids (FFS).
Skin and subcutaneous tissue (L00-L99).
- Chronic wound (poorly healing wounds).
Cardiovascular system (I00-I99)
- Aneurysm (blood vessel outpouching).
- Apoplexy (stroke)
- Atherosclerosis (arteriosclerosis, hardening of the arteries)
- Premature coronary heart disease (CHD; narrowing or occlusion of coronary arteries – vessels supplying the heart) – with the risk of myocardial infarction (heart attack).
- Heart valve disease
- Hypertension (high blood pressure)
- Peripheral arterial occlusive disease (pAVK) – progressive narrowing or occlusion of the arteries supplying the arms / (more often) legs, usually due to atherosclerosis (arteriosclerosis, arteriosclerosis).
Liver, gallbladder and bile ducts – pancreas (pancreas) (K70-K77; K80-K87).
- Pancreatitis (inflammation of the pancreas).
Mouth, esophagus (esophagus), stomach, and intestines (K00-K67; K90-K93).
- Mesenteric infarction – occlusion of the vessels supplying the intestine with necrosis (death) of the affected section.
Neoplasms (C00-D48)
- Colorectal carcinoma (carcinomas of the colon (large intestine) and rectum (rectum)) – considered independent risk factors:
- Hypercholesterolemia (elevated total cholesterol).
- Hypertriglyceridemia
Psyche – nervous system (F00-F99; G00-G99)
- Transient ischemic attack (TIA) – sudden onset of circulatory disturbance in the brain leading to neurologic dysfunction that resolves within 24 hours.
Symptoms and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings not elsewhere classified (R00-R99).
- Chronic inflammation (inflammation)-to be detected, for example, by elevated high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hs-CRP); leads to sequelae such as renal failure or myocardial infarction (heart attacks)
Genitourinary system (N00-N99).
- Urolithiasis (urinary stones) with triglyceride level > 150 mg/dl.
