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2. Atherosclerosis - Wikipedia

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   Atherosclerosis[ a ] is a pattern of the disease arteriosclerosis, [ 8 ] characterized by development of abnormalities called lesions in walls of arteries. This is a chronic inflammatory disease involving many different cell types, and driven by elevated levels of cholesterol in the blood. [ 9 ] These lesions may lead to narrowing of the ...

3. Arteriosclerosis - Wikipedia

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   Arteriosclerosis, literally meaning "hardening of the arteries", is an umbrella term for a vascular disorder characterized by abnormal thickening, hardening, and loss of elasticity [3] of the walls of arteries; [4] this process gradually restricts the blood flow to one's organs and tissues and can lead to severe health risks brought on by atherosclerosis, which is a specific form of ...

4. Arteriolosclerosis - Wikipedia

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   Arteriolosclerosis is a form of cardiovascular disease involving hardening and loss of elasticity of arterioles or small arteries and is most often associated with hypertension and diabetes mellitus. [1] Types include hyaline arteriolosclerosis and hyperplastic arteriolosclerosis, [2] both involved with vessel wall thickening and luminal ...

5. What Causes a Heart Attack? - AOL

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   A heart attack occurs when blood flow to the heart becomes blocked. The most common cause is atherosclerosis, but other conditions like a blood clot, spasm, or tear in your coronary arteries can ...

6. Arterial occlusion - Wikipedia

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   Arterial occlusion is a condition involving partial or complete blockage of blood flow through an artery. Arteries are blood vessels that carry oxygenated blood to body tissues. [1][2] An occlusion of arteries disrupts oxygen and blood supply to tissues, leading to ischemia. [1] Depending on the extent of ischemia, symptoms of arterial ...

7. Cardiovascular disease - Wikipedia

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   Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is any disease involving the heart or blood vessels. [3] CVDs constitute a class of diseases that includes: coronary artery diseases (e.g. angina, heart attack), heart failure, hypertensive heart disease, rheumatic heart disease, cardiomyopathy, arrhythmia, congenital heart disease, valvular heart disease, carditis, aortic aneurysms, peripheral artery disease ...

8. Monckeberg's arteriosclerosis - Wikipedia

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   Translumbar aortography shows near-total obstruction of the femoral arteries. Mönckeberg's arteriosclerosis, or Mönckeberg's sclerosis, is a non-inflammatory form of arteriosclerosis (artery hardening), which differs from atherosclerosis traditionally. Calcium deposits are found in the muscular middle layer of the walls of arteries (the ...

9. Environmental metal exposure may increase atherosclerosis ...

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   Metal exposure associated with atherosclerosis over 10 years. At the study’s conclusion, McGraw and her team found that metal exposure may be associated with atherosclerosis over 10 years by ...