The world's rising obesity epidemic is associated with a broad spectrum of ailments including atherosclerosis and non-alcoholic fatty liver (NAFL) disease. Each condition can progress from small fatty ...

Many physicians have come to believe that aortic valve sclerosis and subsequent aortic valve stenosis are due to the atherosclerotic process. Pohle and colleagues [1] recently made some observations ...

Cardiovascular disease due to atherosclerosis is the leading cause of disease and mortality worldwide. So-called “vulnerable” atherosclerotic plaques are those that are likely to result in clinical ...

Results from the international VESALIUS-CV (TIMI 66) clinical trial found that among adults with atherosclerotic ...

I mentioned in the introduction that a person’s Lp(a) levels are mostly determined by genetics. What evidence supports this conclusion? How might the hereditary nature of Lp(a) help drive awareness of ...

Elective coronography has low diagnostic yield for obstructive coronary artery disease (CAD). We aim to determine whether non-invasive aortic stiffness assessment improves diagnostic accuracy of CAD ...

Some preliminary data suggest that statin therapy may have a beneficial effect on calcific aortic stenosis (AS). Accordingly, the goal of SEAS, a double-blind, randomized controlled trial, was to ...

More than two decades’ worth of data from a large Japanese registry are shedding light on the factors that up the odds a person will die from aortic disease—most salient are heavy smoking, higher ...

A strong positive correlation between mean maternal total cholesterol levels and mean fetal aortic lesion size was found. An awareness of a possible genetic predisposition to early cardiovascular ...

(Boston)--The world's rising obesity epidemic is associated with a broad spectrum of ailments including atherosclerosis and non-alcoholic fatty liver (NAFL) disease. Each condition can progress from ...