In addition to substantial lifestyle changes, there may be additional help in reversing atherosclerosis, including statin ...

Several cardiovascular risk factors, such as advanced age and smoking history, are prevalent among lung cancer patients at ...

COVID-19 accelerates the progression of atherosclerotic plaques, increasing coronary inflammation and the risk of high-risk ...

Centre for Health Research, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ostrava, Ostrava, Czechia Introduction: Extracranial carotid calcification is a common marker of ...

DDR1 activation was observed in collagen (Col)-coated gels and in calcified atherosclerotic plaques, resulting in changes in SMC genes modulated through extracellular signal-regulated kinases (ERKs) ...

We examine a machine-learning approach using eXtreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost) to classify carotid plaques as vulnerable or stable using non-calcified plaque features and calcification morphology.

The expression of the epigenetic writer EZH2 (enhancer of zeste homolog 2) is increased in advanced atherosclerotic plaques and is associated with an unstable phenotype. The main source of EZH2 in ...

In atherosclerosis, the vascular smooth muscle ... as well as to the formation of the fibrous cap that provides stability to the plaque. The VSMC can undergo a proliferative response that ...

In recent years, it has become clear that carotid IMT, coronary calcification and carotid plaque reflect biologically and genetically different aspects of the atherosclerotic process, and will ...

3 Centre for Molecular Nanometrology, Department of Pure and Applied Chemistry, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK 4 Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences, College of Medical, ...