The prevalence of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality is higher in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD)—especially those with end-stage renal disease—than in the general population. The ...

Although atherosclerosis is widely thought to be a disease of modern times, computed tomographic evidence of atherosclerosis has been found in the bodies of a large number of mummies. Researchers have ...

Heart disease and stroke are the world's two most deadly diseases, causing over 15 million deaths in 2016 according to the World Health Organization. A key underlying factor in both of these global ...

VIENNA, Austria — Calcification in large vessel beds, identified on computerized tomography (CT), is associated with a global cognitive decline in otherwise healthy people, according to a prospective ...

New research shows that there are no significant differences in the incidence or severity of atherosclerotic disease (narrowing of the arteries with fatty deposits) between ancient and modern ...

April 5, 2004 — Atherosclerosis and depression are linked in the elderly, according to the results of a cross-sectional study published in the April issue of the Archives of General Psychiatry.

Ancient mummies had eveidence of atherosclerosis on CT scans. March 11, 2013— -- Long thought to be a modern disease related to contemporary lifestyles, atherosclerosis was common among ancient ...

Building on prior research on vascular calcification in the mummified remains of ancient people, the Horus Study Group has now made a similar discovery in Inuit people who lived on the Greenlandic ...

Athletes, paradoxically, have been shown to have more coronary atherosclerosis compared with their less-active peers—now new data hint that the amount of plaque, and its makeup, may vary by sport. In ...

Although atherosclerosis is widely thought to be a disease of modern times, computed tomographic (CT) evidence of atherosclerosis has been found in the bodies of a large number of mummies. In a paper ...