Lipoprotein(a), or Lp(a), is a genetically determined blood lipid and an important risk factor for cardiovascular disease.

Silent artery plaque was detected in over half of healthy adults in the REACT study, yet traditional cardiovascular risk ...

For more than three decades, amyloid has been the organizing principle of Alzheimer’s disease research. The sticky protein fragment, which accumulates into plaques in the brain years before memory p ...

University of Virginia School of Medicine researchers have created an "atlas of atherosclerosis" that reveals, at the level of individual cells, critical processes responsible for forming the harmful ...

Patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) face more than double the risk for atherosclerotic plaque progression than healthy control individuals without the condition, but management of ...

The progression of atherosclerosis in people who have no symptoms of it is independently associated with the risk of dying from any cause, according to a new study led by researchers from Mount Sinai ...

Among adults ages 18 to 29, about one in 13 showed early plaque buildup. By ages 60 to 70, nearly nine in 10 had evidence of ...

A study carried out at Mount Sinaí Fuster Heart Hospital in New York in collaboration with the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC) in Madrid provides important new information ...

Muscle injury triggers inflammation in which infiltrating mononuclear phagocytes are crucial for tissue regeneration. The interaction of the CCL2/CCR2 and CX3CL1/CX3CR1 chemokine axis that guides ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Prior to 1990, many assumed that once cholesterol plaques form in the arteries causing atherosclerosis, it was not reversible.

High-resolution vessel wall MRI reveals that ischemic stroke in moyamoya disease is driven by diffuse arterial narrowing and constrictive remodeling, while atherosclerosis-associated moyamoya ...