In rabbits prone to atherosclerosis, one compound reduced plaque deposits by 30% in three months.
MummySeveral years ago investigators first reported finding evidence of atherosclerosis in 20 of 44 Egyptian mummies.
"We will see low-cost 256-slice scanners that can pinpoint atherosclerosis in high-resolution 3-D images, " says Kessler.
Allayee is part of a USC-UCLA team exploring the link between leukotrienes and atherosclerosis.
Ultimately, researchers envision shots to stave off chronic diseases such as cancer and atherosclerosis.
The only disease linked to apo E was a rare type of artery-clogging atherosclerosis.
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In 2008, an artery-imaging study failed to show that Vytorin prevented atherosclerosis better than Zocor alone.
Applying antibiotics, as has been done for atherosclerosis and arthritis, is the obvious experiment.
HoFH patients often develop premature and progressive atherosclerosis, a narrowing or blocking of the arteries.
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Solve the problem of chronic inflammation, then, and a cure for atherosclerosis may come closer.
But when it comes to new drugs in development, atherosclerosis is dwarfed by cancer and neurological disorders.
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Coronary artery disease refers to the damage to your heart arteries from atherosclerosis.
Statins have been shown to keep neck arteries from thickening due to atherosclerosis.
Thicker arteries should mean more atherosclerosis and a greater risk of heart disease.
Mice don't develop atherosclerosis, which means they don't have heart attacks or strokes.
Atherosclerosis can develop in any of your arteries, especially those in your heart.
Heart disease due to atherosclerosis, also known as hardening of the arteries, is a critical problem for children with progeria.
Another is that lowering cholesterol with Zetia in addition to Zocor didn't provide a benefit in terms of slowing atherosclerosis.
Since revealing that Vytorin failed to reduce atherosclerosis better than the cheap generic Zocor, shares of both companies have fallen.
One explanation is that the patients in ENHANCE had been better treated and had less atherosclerosis, making it harder to prevent plaque buildup.
They found probable or definite atherosclerosis, the artery disease that leads to heart attacks and strokes, in 47 of 137 mummies.
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And general atherosclerosis, or hardening of the arteries, is a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease, heart attack, and heart failure.
He said it is commonly thought that if modern humans could emulate pre-industrial or even pre-agricultural lifestyles, that atherosclerosis would be avoided.
That meant the drug might be effective at reversing atherosclerosis--something drugs like Lipitor and Zocor only do after a very long time.
"Atherosclerosis is very much an inflammatory disease, and that's where all the future therapies are going, " says Colin Macphee, a GlaxoSmithkline biologist.
The curious question is why the inflammation would become chronic in atherosclerosis, when in the case of most infections it is transient.
While Deeb and Yaremchuk studied the carotid artery, thickening of one type of artery is considered an indication of atherosclerosis in general.
But perhaps the most worrying of all these findings is the suspected link between Chlamydia pneumoniae and atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries).
When atherosclerosis affects your arms and legs, it's called peripheral artery disease.
The same can be said for a different drug for atherosclerosis, darapladib.
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