Researchers reviewed how air pollution, especially fine particulate matter (PM2.5), drives the development and worsening of ...

1Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Peking University, No. 38 Xueyuan Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100191, China 2Beijing Anzhen Hospital, Capital Medical ...

Pain between the shoulder blades is often due to muscle strain, which may result from lifting heavy objects, poor posture, or overuse. Other health issues can cause upper back pain, though, including ...

Sometimes, SCAD can cause a heart attack because blood cannot reach the heart. Thoracic aortic aneurysm, which also can lead to blood vessel dissection or rupture, can cause pain due to a similar ...

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David Jordan, the Ware County Coroner told WTOC that her official cause of death was, “aortic dissection rupture, hypertensive, and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease”, and that it had ...

If we detect atherosclerotic disease in his carotid, femoral, or even abdominal aorta arteries, he becomes a high-risk patient and would likely require more intensive treatment than what would be ...

In vivo PET sagittal (top) and coronal (bottom) images showing the uptake of FDG in the thoracic aorta in a control rabbit (A), in a rabbit with mild atherosclerosis (B). The correlation of ...

Objective Examine if two inexpensive measures of atherosclerotic vascular diseases (ASVD), abdominal aortic calcification (AAC) and high-sensitivity cardiac troponin I (hs-cTnI) provide complementary ...

At present, how atherosclerosis is involved in aneurysm formation is unclear. 4 Figure 1: Immunohistology and staining of biopsy samples from a patient with a thoracic aortic aneurysm compared ...

The main scientific questions addressed in our laboratory relate to the understanding of molecular mechanisms that control gene regulation through the use of high-throughput biology to characterize ...