Sentences with phrase «atherosclerotic plaque build up»

The only critical risk factor for atherosclerotic plaque build up is elevated cholesterol levels and, specifically, elevated LDL cholesterol levels in your blood.

William C. Roberts — the editor in chief of the American Journal of Cardiology for more than 30 years said quote: «The only critical risk factor for atherosclerotic plaque build up is elevated cholesterol levels and, specifically, elevated LDL cholesterol levels in your blood».

This is the thickness of the inner wall of their carotid arteries, where the atherosclerotic plaque builds up — considered a predictor of «all - cause and cardiovascular mortality.»

Not exact matches

Doctors» efforts to battle the dangerous atherosclerotic plaques that build up in our arteries and cause heart attacks and strokes are built on several false beliefs about the fundamental composition and formation of the plaques, new research from the University of Virginia School of Medicine shows.

The tiny particles are 1,000 times smaller than the tip of a human hair, and are designed to latch on to atherosclerotic plaques — hard deposits made from accumulated fat, cholesterol and calcium that build up on the walls of arteries and are prone to rupture, producing dangerous clots.

However, oxidized cholesterol has been shown to initiate the process of injury and pathological plaque build - up in the arteries; in animal experiments in which large amounts of cholesterol induce atherosclerotic lesions, researchers use oxidized cholesterol, not the undamaged cholesterol that occurs normally in food.