Physiologically Speaking

JANUARY 5, 2024

In this 6-month randomized controlled study, twice-weekly HIIT reduced coronary plaque volume, increased aerobic fitness, and improved body composition in adults with stable heart disease, suggesting benefits for cardiovascular disease progression. Does this greater plaque presence put athletes at a greater risk of CVD events?

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Medical Xpress - Cardiology

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Aging is known to be a risk factor for the biological changes that create the dangerous buildup of plaque in arteries called atherosclerosis, and aging also induces a buildup of memory CD8 T cells, a type of immune cell, in mice and humans.

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Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

IntroductionCardiovascular disease (CVD) caused by atherosclerosis (AS) remains the leading cause of mortality in developed countries. Targeting this cell-cell interaction may offer new therapeutic avenues for managing atherosclerosis. These macrophages were associated with lipid transport, storage, and cell migration pathways.

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Science Daily - Heart Disease

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Researchers have identified a new target to treat atherosclerosis, a condition where plaque clogs arteries and causes major cardiac issues, including stroke and heart attack.

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Science Daily - Heart Disease

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

The findings support that metals in the body are associated with the progression of plaque buildup in the arteries and potentially provide a new strategy for managing and preventing atherosclerosis.

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Science Daily - Stroke

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

CD8+ T cells accumulate in atherosclerotic plaques. Researchers identify a crucial signaling pathway -- with therapeutic potential.

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Medical Xpress - Cardiology

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

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

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Journal of Clinical Investigation - Cardiology

MARCH 1, 2024

Notably, Apoe–/– mice expressing LL37 developed larger atheroma plaques than did control mice, and a positive correlation between plasma LL37 and oxidized phospholipid on apolipoprotein B (OxPL-apoB) levels was observed in individuals with cardiovascular disease.

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Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Background Carotid artery atherosclerosis is a major cause of ischemic stroke, and ischemic stroke is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Unfortunately, the reason for the build-up of atherosclerosis plaque is unknown. However, such studies are rare and limited to animal experiments.

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Dr. Paddy Barrett

APRIL 23, 2025

Atherosclerosis is, by definition, the abnormal retention of a cholesterol particle in the artery wall. Get Access The more particles you throw at your artery wall over a lifetime, the greater the chance one of those particles will be retained and form plaque. That is why addressing high cholesterol early in life is key.

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CTVS

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Common examples of vascular disease are aneurysms (a dangerous bulge in an artery wall), atherosclerosis (plaque buildup in the… Source Vascular disease affects the body’s vast network of blood vessels, veins and arteries.

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Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

JULY 24, 2024

Although the entire vascular bed is constantly exposed to the same risk factors, atherosclerosis manifests a distinct intra-individual pattern in localization and progression within the arterial vascular bed.

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CTVS

APRIL 22, 2025

PAD causes a narrowing of the peripheral arteries due to fatty plaque buildup (or atherosclerosis) which restricts blood flow to the extremities. PAD (Peripheral Artery Disease) is a common circulatory condition affecting more than 10 million Americans. This can lead to… Source

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Science Daily - Heart Disease

APRIL 30, 2024

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 disease.

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Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

APRIL 24, 2025

Atherosclerosis (AS), a chronic inflammatory disease, remains a leading contributor to cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. This pathway is activated by cytoplasmic DNA from damaged cells, thereby triggering inflammation and accelerating plaque formation.

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Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

MARCH 21, 2024

Introduction The progression of coronary atherosclerosis is an active and regulated process. The Wnt signaling pathway is thought to play an active role in the pathogenesis of several cardiovascular diseases; however, a better understanding of this system in atherosclerosis is yet to be unraveled.

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Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

APRIL 4, 2024

Biomechanical forces, including vascular shear stress, cyclic stretching, and extracellular matrix stiffness, which influence mechanosensitive channels in the plasma membrane, determine cell function in atherosclerosis.

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Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Background Inflammation is pivotal to the progression of atherosclerosis. Cholesterol crystals (CCs) that grow and enlarge within the plaque core can cause plaque rupture and trigger inflammation as they deposit into the atherosclerotic bed. Method Different dosages of colchicine mixed with cholesterol (0.05–5 mg/ml/g

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Thus, it has recently become generally accepted that most plaque ruptures resulting in myocardial infarction occur in plaques that narrow the lumen diameter by 40% of the arterial cross section may be involved by plaque. The pathologist may see a plaque that constitutes, for example, 50% of the cross-sectional area.

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Dr. S. Venkatesan MD

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Doctor, do you have any investigation to know how much the total plaque burden is in my coronary artery? I recently read in Forbes Sunday health supplement, It says ,it is better to know the thickness of the cap covering the plaque. So, you want me to teach you the molecular biology of Atherosclerosis ,right ? Korean Circ J.

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Circulation

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

The sections were also used for immunohistochemistry with cell marker antibodies (to measure % plaque smooth muscle cells (SMC), macrophages (MF), and endothelial cells (EC)). to D: 30.7%), elevation in plaque MF (A: 16.7% to D: 22.5%), increase in plaque cell apoptosis (A: 5.2% to D:17.9%) and plaque EC (A:3.21% to D:1.48%).

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Stroke Journal

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Ipsilateral and contralateral carotid artery plaque features were compared, then the carotid artery plaque characteristics on the infarct side were correlated with the infarct pattern.Results:the mean age of subjects included was 68 years old, 79.6% of them were male. 0.15), larger wall area (0.50±0.19 0.23), all p values<0.05.

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Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

JANUARY 9, 2024

Atherosclerosis is a chronic inflammatory disease characterized by endothelial dysfunction and plaque formation. Under pro-inflammatory conditions, endothelial cells can undergo endothelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EndMT), contributing to atherosclerosis development.

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Dr. Paddy Barrett

DECEMBER 19, 2023

You cannot eliminate the plaque entirely, but multiple clinical trials have shown plaque regression using high-intensity cholesterol-lowering treatments, which I have discussed previously. All of these parameters are important and need to be considered when evaluating plaque regression. REVERSAL Investigators.

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Dr. Paddy Barrett

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The reason: They were accumulating plaque in their coronary arteries much earlier than their peers. You can’t have a heart attack if you don’t have plaque in your coronary arteries. And plaque in your coronary arteries is the result of exposure to risk factors over time. The answer: Risk Factors. The answer.

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American College of Cardiology

APRIL 23, 2025

A high baseline level of high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hsCRP) may indicate pan-coronary atherosclerosis and focal high-risk plaques in patients with a recent NSTEMI, according to a substudy of PROSPECT II published April 23.

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Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

APRIL 24, 2024

The early detection of plaques by circulating biomarkers is highly clinically relevant to prevent the occurrence of major complications such as stroke or heart attacks. miRNA expression profiles of serum-derived EVs were obtained by small RNA sequencing and in plaque material simultaneously acquired from patients.

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HCPLive

APRIL 24, 2024

Patients receiving abatacept experienced smaller increases in mean IMT, max IMT, and plaque score compared with the csDMARD cohorts.

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Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

JUNE 16, 2024

In recent years, the role of macrophages as the primary cell type contributing to foam cell formation and atheroma plaque development has been widely acknowledged. Recent studies have further supported the notion that SMCs constitute the majority of foam cells in advanced atherosclerotic plaques.

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Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

MARCH 4, 2024

The complex development of atherosclerosis manifests as intimal plaque which occurs in the presence or absence of traditional risk factors. Atherosclerotic coronary artery disease (CAD) is the causal pathological process driving most major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE) worldwide.

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Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

JUNE 12, 2024

Atherosclerosis (AS) is a complex disease caused by multiple pathological factors threatening human health-the pathogenesis is yet to be fully elucidated.

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Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging

JANUARY 11, 2024

BACKGROUND:Intensive lipid-lowering therapy may induce coronary atherosclerosis regression. A decrease in the percentage of unstable core (fibro-fatty+necrotic plaque; from 14.1 [7.9–22.3] Nevertheless, the factors underlying the effect of lipid-lowering therapy on disease regression remain poorly characterized. 10.6]; −6.6%;P<0.001)

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Circulation

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

CCR5, a chemokine receptor, has been associated with both immunosuppressive and inflammatory phenotypes, however, the possible role of CCR5 pertaining to MDSCs in the development of atherosclerosis has not been elucidated yet. Possibly this dysfunctionality contributes to the development and progression of CVD including atherosclerosis.

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Journal of the American Heart Association

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

BackgroundPlaque progression (PP) is critical between subclinical atherosclerosis and plaque rupture. Journal of the American Heart Association, Ahead of Print. Small dense lowdensity lipoprotein cholesterol (sdLDLC) is considered as the most atherogenic lipoprotein.

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Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

MARCH 7, 2024

Background Although the impact of hypertension on carotid intima-media thickness (IMT) and plaques has been well established, its association with femoral IMT and plaques has not been extensively examined. Ultrasonography was applied to assess the AS, including thickened IMT (TIMT) and plaque in the carotid and femoral arteries.

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Circulation

DECEMBER 17, 2024

However, the role of METTL4-mediated mitoepigenetic regulation in atherosclerosis is still unknown. We explored the mechanism of METTL4 involvement in atherosclerosis usingMettl4Mac-KO-Apoe-/-andMettl4MUT-Apoe-/-mice and cell models, as well as bone marrow transplantation.

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American College of Cardiology

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

The goal of the PACMAN-AMI trial was to demonstrate the efficacy of early administration of alirocumab on plaque characteristics among patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) for an acute myocardial infarction (AMI).

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