early atherosclerosis
Associations of fetuin-A and osteoprotegerin with arterial stiffness and early atherosclerosis in chronic hemodialysis patients
... Background: Cardiovascular morbidity and mortality remains excessive in patients with chronic kidney disease. The association of vascular changes with regulators of extraosseous calcification in this patient population ...
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Early atherosclerosis in systemic sclerosis and its relation to disease or traditional risk factors
... After the first reports suggesting an increased prevalence of macrovascular involvement in SSc, several studies have been performed in the last decade using IMT of the carotid artery as a marker of early ...
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Activation of transforming growth factor β1and early atherosclerosis in systemic lupus erythematosus
... muscle cell proliferation, leading to intima-medial expansion [8,31]. In our study this relationship was observed only in SLE patients, and the slopes in the SLE and control groups were significantly different (P = ...
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Is serum Interleukin 17 associated with early atherosclerosis in obese patients?
... [9,10]. The main function of Interleukin (IL)-17 appears to be the regulation of local tissue inflammation via the coordinated expression of pro-inflammatory cytokines and chemokines. This cytokine is primarily involved ...
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High resolution ultrasound and arterial wall changes in early atherosclerosis
... artery atherosclerosis was observed, whereas HDL cholesterol was negatively related to carotid artery atherosclerosis only in men free of ischaemic heart disease (Salonen et al, ...the ...
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The Role of Defective Macrophage Efferocytosis During Early Atherosclerosis in Humans
... Beyond dysfunction of the innate immune system, there is growing evidence that impaired antigen presentation and autoimmunity also play a role in atherosclerosis. 122,169 Strikingly, autoimmune disorders appear to ...
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A major role for VCAM 1, but not ICAM 1, in early atherosclerosis
... ICAM-1, an adhesion molecule with similar structure, function, and expression patterns, may compensate for VCAM-1 or cooperate with it in various inflammatory conditions, as is the case with P- and E-selectin (4). How- ...
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The anti-inflammatory effect of kaempferol on early atherosclerosis in high cholesterol fed rabbits
... in atherosclerosis rab- bits, and kaempferol groups showed lower TNF-α and IL-1β levels, indicating that the down-regulation of E-sel, ICAM-1, VCAM-1 and MCP-1 might be mediated by the reducing of TNF-α and ...
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Lymphocytes are important in early atherosclerosis
... of atherosclerosis also strongly support a role for IFN- γ , T cells, and B cells in atherogenesis (27, ...transplant atherosclerosis, but their role may be limited to antigen presentation ...
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THE PREDICTORS OF EARLY ATHEROSCLEROSIS IN YOUNG ADULT EPILEPTIC PATIENTS
... This study included 40 adult patients with primary epilepsy and 40 age and sex matched healthy control. The patients were selected from outpatient clinic of neurology department of Zagazig University Hospital (from April ...
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Moderate beer consumption does not change early or mature atherosclerosis in mice
... on early and mature atherosclerosis ...(early atherosclerosis) but not mature atherosclerosis in apoE-/- mice ...affect early and mature atherosclerotic lesion formation in ...
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Early predictive markers of atherosclerosis in the young
... the atherosclerosis in young people can be considered a genetic disease with hereditary transmitted or is it just acquired because of our abusive lifestyle? The presence of the xanthelasma and xanthomas at youth ...
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Fish oil supplementation reverses the effect of cholesterol on apoptotic gene expression in smooth muscle cells
... SMC from chicks fed for 20 days with a cholesterol- rich diet (SMC-Ch) were more susceptible to apoptosis than those from control chicks on a standard diet (SMC-C). This may be due to the accumulation of lipids in SMC, ...
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NATURAL PRODUCTS TARGETING ATHEROSCLEROSIS – AN EMERGING RISK FACTOR OF CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES
... In atherosclerosis, there is an abnormal activation of inflammatory cells, which are aimed toward the lipid deposited in the vascular ...in atherosclerosis. During early atherosclerosis, the ...
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A numerical study of the effect of varied blood pressure on the stability of carotid atherosclerotic plaque
... Blood pressure is a well-known screening factor of CVD [14]. Realistic BP constantly varies during the cycle and fluctuates through beats [15]. A 3-year follow-up study con- ducted by Dirk, et al. concluded that high ...
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The relationship between hematological indices and subclinical atherosclerosis in hypertensive adults in southern Nigeria
... in atherosclerosis, little is known about the relationship between circulating white blood cells and carotid artery wall characteristics among hypertensives in the African ...note, early ...
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Agonistic anti-TIGIT treatment inhibits T cell responses in LDLr deficient mice without affecting atherosclerotic lesion development
... To determine whether the TIGIT-mediated impairment of T cell function affects the development of early atherosclerosis (4 weeks of Western type diet), we measured atherosclerotic lesion sizes upon agonistic ...
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Atherosclerosis in early rheumatoid arthritis: very early endothelial activation and rapid progression of intima media thickness
... the early atherosclerotic process in ...very early atherosclerosis, as measured by ED-FMD and IMT, ...in early RA, a relation that does not seem to be mediated simply via inflammatory disease ...
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Association between Fibrinogen and Carotid Atherosclerosis According to Smoking Status in a Korean Male Population
... were older than current smokers or nonsmokers, and fibrino- gen levels were not statistically different according to smok- ing status after adjusting for age. Not only current smoking but also past smoking can interact ...
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Prevalence of β2 Glycoprotein I Dependent Anticardiolipin Antibodies in Acute Myocardial Infarction
... Atherosclerosis is a complex and indolent histopathological process, which is considered to be the most common underlying process in cardiovascular morbidity and ...for atherosclerosis, this condition is ...
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