Topic: Atherosclerosis
Japan's Emperor Akihito was diagnosed with arteriosclerosis -- hardening of the arteries -- following hospital tests on Friday, a report said.The 77-year-old monarch is expected to continue carrying out his normal duties but will need to take medication, Kyodo News agency said, ...
Atherosclerosis or hardening of the arteries is the main cause of coronary heart disease, the number one cause of death of adults in the United States. Both atherosclerosis and atherosclerotic vascular calcifications show how the body responds to both the genetic and ...
11/22/2010 Print E-mail Hardening of the arteries -- medically called atherosclerosis -- occurs when a combination of fat, cholesterol and calcium sticks to the inside of the vessels that carry blood to your heart. The U.S. National Heart Lung and Blood Institute ...
New animal research has identified a sequence of genetic material that appears to stabilize levels of so-called " In turn, if the sequence is "silenced," HDL levels go up, according to study co-authors Katey Rayner and Kathryn Moore, both of New York ...
New animal research has identified a sequence of genetic material that appears to stabilize levels of so-called " In turn, if the sequence is "silenced," HDL levels go up, according to study co-authors Katey Rayner and Kathryn Moore, both of New York ...
Rosemary Vinci, an employee of Cuyahoga County in Ohio, died in her home on December 22, 2008. Coroner blames blocked artery for Rosemary Vinci's death (December 23, 2008)
Good news for women who love chocolate: Reporting in this week's Archives of Internal Medicine, researchers from the University of Pennsylvania compared the effects of eating chocolate on heart health among more than 1,200 older women. This group had a lower rate ...
Sarpogrelate ( Anplag , MCI-9042 , LS-187,118 ) is a drug which acts as an Pietraszek MH, Takada Y, Taminato A, Yoshimi T, Watanabe I, Takada A. The effect of MCI-9042 on serotonin-induced platelet aggregation in type 2 diabetes mellitus. PMID 10386239 ...
Darapladib is a drug used to inhibit lipoprotein-associated phospholipase A2 (lp-PLA2).
Atherosclerosis is an insidious vascular disease in which lesions, called plaques, form inside arteries and gradually occlude them. The high lipid content of plaques, principally cholesterol, as well as the correlation of high levels of cholesterol in the blood plasma with the ...
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