Oxycholesterol

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Oxycholesterol or 5,6-epoxycholestrol is a form of oxidized cholesterol implicated in atherosclerosis.^[1] It is commonly formed from the reaction of fats and oxygen during high temperature cooking such as frying. Also see oxysterol.

References

↑ Physorg:Little known type of cholesterol may pose the greatest heart disease risk

Cardiovascular disease: vascular disease
Circulatory system pathology
- I70–I99, 440–456

Arteries, arterioles
and capillaries

Inflammation

Arterial occlusive disease /
peripheral vascular disease

Arteriosclerosis	Atherosclerosis Foam cell Fatty streak Atheroma Intermittent claudication Monckeberg's arteriosclerosis Arteriolosclerosis Hyaline Hyperplastic Cholesterol LDL Oxycholesterol Trans fat

Stenosis	Carotid artery stenosis Renal artery stenosis

Other	Aortoiliac occlusive disease Degos disease Erythromelalgia Fibromuscular dysplasia Raynaud's phenomenon

Aneurysm / dissection /
pseudoaneurysm

torso: Aortic aneurysm
- Abdominal aortic aneurysm
- Thoracic aortic aneurysm
Aortic dissection
Coronary artery aneurysm
head / neck
- Intracranial aneurysm
- Intracranial berry aneurysm
- Carotid artery dissection
- Vertebral artery dissection
- Familial aortic dissection

Vascular malformation

Vascular nevus

Veins

Inflammation	Phlebitis

Venous thrombosis / Thrombophlebitis	primarily lower limb Deep vein thrombosis abdomen Hepatic veno-occlusive disease Budd–Chiari syndrome May–Thurner syndrome Portal vein thrombosis Renal vein thrombosis upper limb / torso Mondor's disease Paget–Schroetter disease head Cerebral venous sinus thrombosis Post-thrombotic syndrome

Varicose veins	Gastric varices Portacaval anastomosis Caput medusae Esophageal varices Hemorrhoid Varicocele

Other	Chronic venous insufficiency Chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency Superior vena cava syndrome Inferior vena cava syndrome Venous ulcer

Arteries or veins

Angiopathy
- Macroangiopathy
- Microangiopathy
Embolism
Thrombosis
Vasculitis

Blood pressure

Hypertension	Hypertensive heart disease Hypertensive emergency Hypertensive nephropathy Essential hypertension Secondary hypertension Renovascular hypertension Benign hypertension Pulmonary hypertension Systolic hypertension White coat hypertension

Hypotension	Orthostatic hypotension

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Oxycholesterol

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References