July 2012

What is Atherosclerosis (also known as arteriosclerotic vascular disease or ASVD)? It is a condition in which an artery wall thickens as a result of the accumulation of fatty materials such as cholesterol. It is a syndrome affecting arterial blood vessels, a chronic inflammatory response in the walls of arteries, caused largely by the accumulation of macrophage white blood cells and promoted bylow-density lipoproteins (plasma proteins […]