Soft, Yellow Spots on Eyelids
Patients with these cholesterol-filled lesions, called xanthelasmata, may have a higher risk of heart disease.
A 2011 Danish study of nearly 13,000 patients found that about 4 percent had the spots and that those patients were nearly 70 percent more likely to develop hardening of the arteries and almost 50 percent more likely to have a heart attack over the next few decades than patients without them.
