Atherosclerosis, a disease characterized by the accumulation of lipids and inflammatory cells in the arterial wall, is a significant cause of cardiovascular events. A key process in atherosclerosis is ...

Scientists at the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC) have shown that 18 FDG-PET, an imaging technique widely used to study other conditions, can also be used to monitor ...

Medical illustration showing how plaque buildup and clot formation can restrict blood flow in arteries. Researchers have developed a luteolin-based nanomedicine that targets and stabilizes these ...

WHO Peter Libby, MD, cardiovascular medicine specialist at Brigham and Women's Hospital and the Mallinckrodt Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School; author of a new review paper published in ...

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Researchers have discovered that the smooth muscle cells that line the arteries of people with atherosclerosis can change into new cell types and develop traits similar to cancer that worsen the ...

This article was reviewed by Craig Primack, MD, FACP, FAAP, FOMA. Atherosclerosis happens when a fatty substance called plaque builds up inside your arteries. There are typically few noticeable ...

Most cardiovascular events begin with atherosclerosis, a condition in which inflammation and fatty deposits cause arteries to narrow and stiffen. These deposits, or plaques, build up over years. When ...

A compound associated with the smell of death may have potential as a treatment for atherosclerosis and other chronic inflammatory diseases. Putrescine, the compound responsible for perhaps the ...

“Current in vitro atherosclerosis models have significant limitations, including the lack of three-layer vascular architecture and limited atherosclerotic features,” said Ho-Wook Jun, Ph.D., a ...