Hardening of the arteries

Atherosclerosis. Hardening of the arteries. The formation of obstructive plaques in the arteries. 

LDL, or "bad," cholesterol builds up as a plaque-like deposit on the interior walls of arteries. This process used to be called hardening of the arteries today it is referred to as atherosclerosis. It can lead to cardiovascular diseases, including strokes and heart attacks. In contrast, HDL or "good" cholesterol retards or even reduces arterial deposits. 

Arteriosclerosis condition known as hardening of the arteries due to plaque deposits in arteries... 

More serious conditions for which people take herbal drugs include depression, irregular heartbeat and other heart problems, arthritis, arteriosclerosis (hardening of the arteries), asthma, high blood pressure, various cancers, diabetes, epilepsy, gallstones, sexually transmitted diseases, hepatitis, jaundice, malaria, measles, obesity, tetanus, tuberculosis, and ulcers. 

Fats are esters of glycerol and fatty acids. Liquid fats are often called oils. Whether a fat is solid or liquid depends on the nature of the fatty acids. Solid animal fats contain mostly saturated fatty acids, while vegetable oils contain high amounts of unsaturated fatty acids. To avoid arteriosclerosis, hardening of the arteries, diets which are low in saturated fatty acids as well as in cholesterol are recommended. 

Atherosclerosis ( hardening of the arteries ) is clearly the most common disease process leading to disability and death in the industrialized countries. That is, coronary artery disease (CAD) was the number 1 cause of death in the United States, while cerebrovascular disease (stroke and ischemic dementia) was the third major... 

Coronary Heart Disease (CHD) atherosclerosis a particular type of hardening of the arteries involving infiltration of fatty materials into the arterial wall. 

Oxidation reactions are important in many reactions that keep our bodies going. But oxidation has also been blamed for aging, cancer, hardening of the arteries, and rheumatoid arthritis. Research is being done to evaluate the benefits of antioxidants in foods and dietary supplements. Antioxidants are natural reducing agents such as... 

Cholesterol itself is the principal constituent of gallstones and can be readily isolated from them (see Chapter 22). The average person contains about 200 g of cholesterol, primarily in brain and nerve tissue. The closing of arteries by cholesterol leads to the disease arteriosclerosis (hardening of the arteries). 

Three unsaturated fatty acids which are essential include linoleic, linolinic, and arachidonic acids and have 2, 3, and 4 double bonds respectively. Saturated fats, along with cholesterol, have been implicated in arteriosclerosis, "hardening of the arteries". For this reason, the diet should be decreased in saturated fats (animal) and increased in unsaturated fat (vegetable). 

Arteriosclerosis, commonly called hardening of the arteries, is a hardening and thickening of the arterial walls resulting in loss of elasticity. Atherosclerosis is a form of arteriosclerosis characterized by the deposition of plaques on the innermost layers of large- and medium-sized arteries. 1,3-butadiene, widely used as a monomer in the rubber and plastics industries and a component of cigarette smoke, has been shown to accelerate the development of atherosclerosis by promoting plaque development J2,31... 

Since Johann Lobstein first coined the term arteriosclerosis, or hardening of the arteries in 1833, to the Framingham Study which began in 1948 (42), to the isolation of mevastatin by Akira Endo in 1976 (43), and on to the publication of the Scandinavian Simvastatin Survival Study (4S) in 1994 (44), cholesterol levels have emerged as perhaps the most potent modifiable risk factor in the treatment of chronic ischemic heart disease. Genetic disorders such as homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia where severe atherosclerosis is present by early adolescence have helped clarify the importance of LDL cholesterol in the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis. 

Arteriosclerosis An age-related condition in which the walls of the arteries become thickened and more rigid also called hardening of the arteries. 

Definition A group of diseases that results in arterial wall thickening ("hardening of the arteries ). " 1... 

Cholesterol is an alcohol and a steroid (Chapter 18). Diets that contain large amounts of cholesterol have been linked to heart disease and atherosclerosis, hardening of the arteries. The narrowing of the artery, caused by plaque buildup, is very apparent. Cholesterol is directly involved in this buildup. 

Hydrogenation of vegetable oils produces a mixture of cts and trans unsaturated fatly acids. The trans unsaturated fatty acids are thought to contribute to atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries). 

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