The Marker and Cell (MAC)55, and Immersed Boundary Method (IBM)56,57 are leveraged to gain a quantitative understanding of the model considered, where each pixel of the cross-sectional image is regarded as a control volume. The effect of convection has been estimated by taking into ...
Eight combinations of pulsatile pressure gradients between the inflow and outflow were implemented at the model. Three levels of fibrous cap thickness were taken into consideration to investigate the additional effect on the BP variability. Wall shear stress and stress/strain distribution over the ...
Effect of ezetimibe on stabilization and regression of intracoronary plaque — the ZIPANGU study. Circ. J. 11, 1611–1619 (2017). Article Google Scholar Hougaard, M. et al. Influence of ezetimibe in addition to high-dose atorvastatin therapy on plaque composition in patients with ST-segment ...
As each plaque had multiple VH-IVUS slices, a linear mixed-effects model was used to compare groups by using a random effect for plaque and fixed effects for group to account for clustering with results presented as mean ± SEM. All calculations were 2-tailed and a p value <0.05 was ...
Why is there an increase in arterial blood pressure during exercise? Why does age have an effect on max heart rate? a. As the heart ages, it becomes larger and more efficient and does not have to work as hard. b. As the heart ages, it does not function as well due to loss of el...
Furthermore, treatments had a major effect on the outcomes as well. Therefore, oral hypoglycemic agents, injectable hypoglycemic medications, antihypertensives, antiplatelet agents, and statins were included in the model, which yielded similar results. Specifically, for each unit increase in the TyG ...
Discuss the two main types of heart failure and what causes them. What effect might obesity have on blood pressure? Does obesity alone cause a person to be at risk for high blood pressure? How does myocardial infarction affect he...
Although this was a confounding factor that likely affected the presence of inflammation in the plaque, the effect on macrophage infiltration, number of SMCs, and neovascularization still was significant after adjusting for symptoms (Table IV). This finding has yet to be investigated and be ...
SMYA consists of four traditional Chinese herbs, the composition shown in Table 1, has the effect of clearing heat, detoxifying, invigorating the circulation of blood, and unblocking circulation tracts. SMYA has a significant effect on various diseases, which are based on As lesions, for ...
Plaque rupture occurs when the ultimate stress (i.e., maximum stress at failure) of the fibrous cap tissue is exceeded (Richardson et al., 1989; Born and Richardson, 1989) under the action of high blood pressure (Burke et al., 1999; Davies and Thomas, 1981, 1985). Cap rupture has be...