If left untreated, atherosclerosis can lead to potentially life-threatening health problems, such as heart attack and stroke. However, with proper treatment and lifestyle changes, you may be able to reduce your risk of complications from atherosclerosis and keep your condition from getting worse. ...
Plaque can grow in a slow, controlled way into the path of blood flow.Over time, it causes significant blockages. Pain in your chest or legs when you exert yourself is the usual symptom. They can suddenly rupture.This allows blood to clot inside an artery. In your brain, this causes a...
Sudden complete blockage of an intestinal artery often causes severe abdominal pain, sometimes with vomiting, bloody stool and abdominal swelling. Legs — Narrowing of the leg arteries from atherosclerosis is known as peripheral artery disease. It can cause cramping pain in the leg muscles, ...
What Causes Atherosclerosis? The initial step in the development of atherosclerosis is damage to the lining of an artery. This damage is usually the result of free radicals (highly reactive toxic chemicals) and/or inflammation. Once the artery lining has been damaged, the site of injury attracts...
What Causes Hardening of the Arteries? The exact cause of arteriosclerosis is not known; however, risk factors for the development and progression of arteriosclerosis have been identified. The risk factors can be divided into factors that can be changed and those that cannot. ...
Atherosclerosis is the leading cause of illness and death in the United States and most other Western countries. It causes about one million deaths per year in the United States alone, double the number of deaths from cancer. The disease develops slowly. It shows few symptoms until the arteries...
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Intracranial atherosclerosis: Causes of ischemic stroke, diagnosis, and treatmentThe paper reviews the literature on the identification of the causes of ischemic stroke and transient ischemic attacks in intracranial atherosclerosis. Symptomatic intracranial atherosclerosis is the cause of an ischemic focus in...
Metabolic syndrome, dyslipidemia, hypertension and type 2 diabetes in youth: from diagnosis to treatment a better understanding of the causes of this problem must be implemented worldwide, by aiming at the prevention of obesity in children and adolescents./p... A Halpern,MC Mancini,ECM Magalh?Es...
ACCELERATED ATHEROSCLEROSIS IN LONG-TERM DIALYSIS AND RENAL-TRANSPLANT PATIENTS: FACT OR FICTION? The causes of death and morbidity in a series of 104 patients with end-stage renal disease were analysed in an attempt to determine whether dialysis and re... NICHOLLS,A - 《Lancet》 被引量: 213...