Sentences with phrase «develop cholesterol plaques»
The insulin - receptor knockout mice developed cholesterol plaques that were more than twice the size of those found in the control animals.
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The findings, published in PLoS Genetics, indicate that preventative cholesterol - lowering treatment could prevent more advanced, clinically relevant plaque to develop.
A primary risk factor for developing this plaque is elevated blood concentrations of cholesterol carried in low - density - lipoprotein (LDL).
That is why researchers more often rely on faster - developing indicators of (apparently) improved health: tumor shrinkage in cancer, lowered blood - sugar levels in diabetes, reduced brain plaque in Alzheimer's, lowered bad cholesterol or elevated good cholesterol in heart disease.
Now, if you have a large, big, light type of cholesterol molecule, like a basketball, these things don't get into those cracks very much and that actually lowers the risk of developing plaques, and strokes, and potentials like that.
The reduction of bad cholesterol in the system lowers the chances of developing plaque in the arteries.