Inflammation in atherosclerosis: Drivers, mechanisms and therapies
Zihan Su, Suowen Xu · 2026
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Zihan Su and Suowen Xu review inflammation as a driver of atherosclerosis, the artery-narrowing disease behind most heart attacks and strokes. Fat buildup alone no longer explains the disease, the pair argue. Vessel wall cells and immune cells keep a slow burn alive inside plaques.
Smoking, blood sugar faults, and fatty blood products all stoke that burn. A blood marker of inflammation now beats cholesterol at foretelling heart risk in some studies. Pairing fat-lowering drugs with inflammation blockers cut repeat events in trials, though infection risk needs care. Fresh tools, from stem-cell vessel models to rapid drug screens, close the survey of what care may look like next.
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| CREATOR | Zihan Su, Suowen Xu |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 148539 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |