Atherosclerosis, the underlying cause of the majority of CVD; affecting both women and men, is a multifactorial disease with many risk factors which include age, sex, race, lipid levels, obesity, inflammatory and infectious diseases, hypertension, genetic and environmental factors. Several invasive and non-invasive imaging techniques allow the assessment of atherosclerosis from early to late stages of the disease. Although, atherosclerosis is thought to be a disease of modernity, yet, it was found in a large number of ancient human mummies. Computed Tomography evidence of atherosclerosis has...
Atherosclerosis, the underlying cause of the majority of CVD; affecting both women and men, is a multifactorial disease with many risk factors which i...