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  2. Cerebral atherosclerosis - Wikipedia

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    Cerebral atherosclerosis is a type of atherosclerosis where build-up of plaque in the blood vessels of the brain occurs. Some of the main components of the plaques are connective tissue, extracellular matrix, including collagen, proteoglycans, fibronectin, and elastic fibers; crystalline cholesterol, cholesteryl esters, and phospholipids; cells such as monocyte derived macrophages, T ...

  3. Cerebrovascular disease - Wikipedia

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    Atherosclerosis narrows blood vessels in the brain, resulting in decreased cerebral perfusion. Other risk factors that contribute to stroke include smoking and diabetes. [6] Narrowed cerebral arteries can lead to ischemic stroke, but continually elevated blood pressure can also cause tearing of vessels, leading to a hemorrhagic stroke. [4]

  4. Atherosclerosis: What Men Need to Know About Plaque ... - AOL

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    An aortic aneurysm often doesn’t cause symptoms, but it can lead to severe, sudden bleeding from a ruptured aneurysm. A ruptured aneurysm has a high risk of death. If symptoms of an aortic ...

  5. Stroke - Wikipedia

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    Stroke is a medical condition in which poor blood flow to a part of the brain causes cell death. [5] There are two main types of stroke: ischemic, due to lack of blood flow, and hemorrhagic, due to bleeding. [5] Both cause parts of the brain to stop functioning properly. [5]

  6. What Is Heart Disease? Everything You Need to Know - AOL

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    This medical emergency can result in brain damage, disability, or even death. ... within arteries damaged by atherosclerosis, the same process that causes coronary artery disease. Aneurysms can ...

  7. Intracranial hemorrhage - Wikipedia

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    Same symptoms as ischemic stroke, but unconsciousness, headache, nausea, stiff neck, and seizures are more often in brain hemorrhages than ischemic strokes: Complications: Coma, persistent vegetative state, cardiac arrest (when bleeding is in the brain stem or is severe), death: Types

  8. Binswanger's disease - Wikipedia

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    The histologic findings are diffuse, irregular loss of axons and myelin accompanied by widespread gliosis, tissue death due to an infarction or loss of blood supply to the brain, and changes in the plasticity of the arteries. The pathologic mechanism may be damage caused by severe atherosclerosis. The onset of this disease is typically between ...

  9. 8 Common Cardiovascular Diseases for Men & How to Prevent Them

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    The build-up of plaque is also called atherosclerosis. Plaque can limit the supply of blood and oxygen to your heart tissue. Many people with early coronary artery disease don’t have any symptoms.