Atherosclerosis

"Atherosclerosis" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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A thickening and loss of elasticity of the walls of ARTERIES that occurs with formation of ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUES within the ARTERIAL INTIMA.

Descriptor ID	D050197
MeSH Number(s)	C14.907.137.126.307
Concept/Terms	Atherosclerosis Atherosclerosis Atheroscleroses Atherogenesis Atherogenesis

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Atherosclerosis".

Diseases [C]
Cardiovascular Diseases [C14]
Vascular Diseases [C14.907]
Arterial Occlusive Diseases [C14.907.137]
Arteriosclerosis [C14.907.137.126]
Atherosclerosis [C14.907.137.126.307]

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is related to "Atherosclerosis".

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Atherosclerosis".

Atherosclerosis
Peripheral Arterial Disease

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Bar chart showing 33 publications over 12 distinct years, with a maximum of 8 publications in 2011

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
2005	1	0	1
2006	0	1	1
2007	3	0	3
2008	3	1	4
2009	3	0	3
2010	3	0	3
2011	4	4	8
2012	1	1	2
2015	3	0	3
2016	1	0	1
2021	1	2	3
2022	1	0	1

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Williams KB, Horst M, Young M, Pascua C, Puffenberger EG, Brigatti KW, Gonzaga-Jauregui C, Shuldiner AR, Gidding S, Strauss KA, Chowdhury D. Clinical characterization of familial hypercholesterolemia due to an amish founder mutation in Apolipoprotein B. BMC Cardiovasc Disord. 2022 03 17; 22(1):109.

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Ding R, Sun X, Yi B, Liu W, Kazama K, Xu X, Deshpande DA, Liang C, Sun J. Nur77 Attenuates Inflammasome Activation by Inhibiting Caspase-1 Expression in Pulmonary Vascular Endothelial Cells. Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol. 2021 09; 65(3):288-299.

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Sang CJ, Burkett A, Heindl B, Litovsky SH, Prabhu SD, Benson PV, Rajapreyar I. Cardiac pathology in COVID-19: a single center autopsy experience. Cardiovasc Pathol. 2021 Sep-Oct; 54:107370.

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Fujikura K, Albini A, Barr RG, Parikh M, Kern J, Hoffman E, Hiura GT, Bluemke DA, Carr J, Lima JAC, Michos ED, Gomes AS, Prince MR. Aortic enlargement in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and emphysema: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA) COPD study. Int J Cardiol. 2021 05 15; 331:214-220.

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Lemole GM. The Role of Lymphstasis in Atherogenesis Revisited. Ann Thorac Surg. 2016 May; 101(5):2029.

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Dobrian AD, Hatcher MA, Brotman JJ, Galkina EV, Taghavie-Moghadam P, Pei H, Haynes BA, Nadler JL. STAT4 contributes to adipose tissue inflammation and atherosclerosis. J Endocrinol. 2015 Oct; 227(1):13-24.

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Niemczyk NA, Catov JM, Barinas-Mitchell E, McClure CK, Roberts JM, Tepper PG, Sutton-Tyrrell K. Nulliparity is associated with less healthy markers of subclinical cardiovascular disease in young women with overweight and obesity. Obesity (Silver Spring). 2015 May; 23(5):1085-91.

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Yin Y, Li X, Sha X, Xi H, Li YF, Shao Y, Mai J, Virtue A, Lopez-Pastrana J, Meng S, Tilley DG, Monroy MA, Choi ET, Thomas CJ, Jiang X, Wang H, Yang XF. Early hyperlipidemia promotes endothelial activation via a caspase-1-sirtuin 1 pathway. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol. 2015 Apr; 35(4):804-16.

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Foy A, Ruggiero NJ, Filippone EJ. Revascularization in renal artery stenosis. Cardiol Rev. 2012 Jul-Aug; 20(4):189-93.

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Pavlides S, Gutierrez-Pajares JL, Danilo C, Lisanti MP, Frank PG. Atherosclerosis, caveolae and caveolin-1. Adv Exp Med Biol. 2012; 729:127-44.

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