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Understanding and Preventing Cardiovascular Disease | Prakriti Gaba MD
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The Role of Inflammation in Heart Disease
The walls of these arteries, would you say that they have muscles along them? Yeah. They're made up of smooth muscle cells. Would you then say that another cause of a heart attack or this vascular disease would be if the lining, the smooth muscle cells were attacked by inflammation, for example)? I think that's an excellent point. You know, the two main theories for why people develop heart disease and specifically arterial heart disease is high levels of cholesterol and also inflammation. And there are several different ways in which you can have inflammation arise in the body.
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