High blood pressure alone increases the risk for atherosclerosis, but it's especially dangerous if you smoke or you have diabetes or unhealthycholesterol levels. High blood pressure raises the risk of atherosclerosis. When the heart beats, it pushes blood through the arteries in your entire body. ...
In line with the mortality studies are observed associations between daily levels of air pollution and hospital or emergency room admissions due to cardiovascular events such as myocardial infarction, arrhythmia, and stroke.In addition, increases in blood viscosity and blood pressure, and decreases in ...
As evidenceof a chronic inflammatory process following the menopause hs-C reactive protein increases after the menopause. The pathogenesis of atherosclerosis appears to initiate from an inflammatory reaction following injury to the endothelium due to shear forces on the vessel wall. Through the presence...
blood pressure, and respiration continuously recorded. In persons who have atherosclerosis, this test may show evidence of decreased blood supply to the heart created by the increased demand for blood and oxygen by exercise. If the patient is not able to exercise, a chemical stimulation test ...
A proinflammatory gut microbiota increases systemic inflammation and accelerates atherosclerosis. Circ Res. 2019;124(1):94–100. Article CAS PubMed Google Scholar Slenders L, Landsmeer LPL, Cui K, Depuydt MAC, Verwer M, Mekke J, et al. Intersecting single-cell transcriptomics and genome-wide...
It also increases the risk of a heart attack, which occurs when a coronary artery is blocked completely. Stroke— A blood clot (thrombus) may form inside a brain artery that has been narrowed by atherosclerosis. Once this thrombus forms, it cuts off the blood supply to part of the brain,...
In monkeys, social stress doubles coronary atherosclerosis, and increases coronary spasm, and treatment with oestrogen, which improves endothelial function, reduces coronary spasm in relation to stress. In human beings, mental stress provokes myocardial ischaemia, and haemodynamic responses to mental stress...
ERα expression decreases during progression of atherosclerosis while ERβ increases. Mouse knockout studies revealed that ERα is largely responsible for the protective effects of estrogen after vascular injury and in initiation of atherosclerosis, while ERβ is important for vascular function and the ...
Effect of losartan on ambulatory short-term blood pressure variability and cardiovascular remodeling in hypertensive patients on hemodialysis Previous studies have shown increases in ambulatory short-term blood pressure (BP) variability to be related to cardiovascular disease. In this study, we e... H...
B-lymphocyte deficiency increases atherosclerosis in LDL receptor-null mice. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol. 2002;22:1892–8. Article CAS PubMed Google Scholar Kyaw T, Tay C, Krishnamurthi S, Kanellakis P. B1a B lymphocytes are atheroprotective by secreting natural IgM that increases IgM ...