The world's rising obesity epidemic is associated with a broad spectrum of ailments including atherosclerosis and non-alcoholic fatty liver (NAFL) disease. Each condition can progress from small fatty ...

Many physicians have come to believe that aortic valve sclerosis and subsequent aortic valve stenosis are due to the atherosclerotic process. Pohle and colleagues [1] recently made some observations ...

A mouse study led by University of California, Riverside, biomedical scientists suggests that everyday exposure to ...

Cardiovascular disease due to atherosclerosis is the leading cause of disease and mortality worldwide. So-called “vulnerable” atherosclerotic plaques are those that are likely to result in clinical ...

MUCH has been written about occlusive disease involving the great vessels of the aortic arch since the first reports on this subject by Savory 1 in 1856 and Broadbent 2 in 1875. This clinical entity, ...

Microplastics—tiny particles now found in food, water, air, and even human tissues—may directly accelerate artery-clogging ...

A strong positive correlation between mean maternal total cholesterol levels and mean fetal aortic lesion size was found. An awareness of a possible genetic predisposition to early cardiovascular ...

A study by scientists at the University of California at Riverside has shown that regular exposure to microplastics can ...