Sentences with phrase «form plaque in your arteries»

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ORLANDO, Fla. — Adding a pharmaceutical form of the B vitamin niacin — but not the drug ezetimibe — to a cholesterol - lowering statin drug appears to reduce artery plaque buildup in patients with coronary artery disease, according to much - anticipated results announced at a press conference November 15.

These findings hold exciting clinical implications.When the researchers blocked the CD36 receptor in mice with atherosclerosis (in which cholesterol thickens the arteries), the cytokine response declined, fewer cholesterol crystals formed in plaques, and inflammation decreased.

Coronary artery disease, or the buildup of plaque and blockages in the heart's arteries, is the most common cause of cardiac arrest, though it can also be caused by other forms of heart disease as well as some genetic diseases and other conditions.

Aspirin helps prevent heart attacks and strokes by preventing blood clots from forming in arteries lined with unhealthy plaque buildup.

Called «bad» cholesterol, LDL can build up in the arteries, forming plaque that makes them narrow and less flexible, a condition called atherosclerosis.

Plaques form inside arteries in locations where the artery was, at some point in the past, acutely damaged by deposits of highly irritating pro-inflammatory fats that splatter on the insides of your arteries.

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Heart Healthy Benefits: Coconut oil, like other healthy oils can shift the ratio of goood HDL cholesterol to the sticky plaque forming LDL cholesterol, thus lowering the formation of plaque in the arteries and lowering the risk of stroke and heart attack.

To me it seem like plaques form when the blood becomes «saturated» with cholesterol and it «precipitates» out in the walls of the arteries where it is eaten by immune cells which turn into foam cells when they become engorged with cholesterol.

When these nutrients are not sufficient in the body, calcium will be much more likely to end up in the arteries in the form of plaques.

Bad cholesterol can accumulate in your arteries and form plaque that not only increases your blood pressure but also increases your risk of heart attack.

This process eventually causes blockage to occur in the form of plaque - promoting inflammation of the artery walls.

Cholesterol is a healing substance within the body (among many other important functions), and responds to arterial inflammation by getting deposited in combination with other substances, forming «plaque» as a healing agent on the artery lining.

While serum cholesterol levels provide an inaccurate indication of future heart disease, a high level of a substance called homocysteine in the blood has been positively correlated with pathological buildup of plaque in the arteries and the tendency to form clots — a deadly combination.

It can build up in the arteries, forming plaque that narrows the arteries and makes them less flexible (atherosclerosis).

TMAO is thought to encourage fatty plaque deposits to form within arteries (atherosclerosis), and therefore, the more TMAO you have in your blood the greater your risk of heart disease might be.

For example, an increase in oxidation can cause low - density lipoprotein (LDL), also known as «bad» cholesterol, to form plaque on the artery walls.»

The evidence shows that this is the particle that put nicks in our arteries causing the plaques to form.

It also prevents plaque from forming in your arteries and causing atherosclerosis.

These fats and white blood cells begin to oxidize (become rancid) and build up in the artery walls, forming plaques.