Renal Arterial Aging
1. Primary renal parenchymal disorders 2. Diabetic kidney disease 3. Hypertension 4. Infections 5. Tumors of the kidney and renal pelvis 6. Renal arterial aging The present chapter is a…
Arterial Ageing
Fig. 14.1 Normal values for pulse wave velocity (c-f PWV): average according to age (1,455 healthy, normotensive subjects). Boxes contain 50 % of the data and bars contain the remainder…
Arterial Interactions with Mineral and Bone Disorders
Fig. 11.1 Osteochondrogenic BMP- Msx2-Wnt signaling in arterial calcifications Molecular imaging in vivo has demonstrated inflammation-associated osteogenesis in early stages of atherosclerosis [38], confirming the role of inflammation in triggering…
Role of Metabolic Factors: Lipids, Glucose/Insulin Intolerance
Fig. 8.1 Proposed the interaction of metabolic risk factors, adaptive metabolic response, and AD in CRS. Risk factors for AD such as hyperglycemia, insulin resistance, dyslipidemia, fructose, and uric acid…
Vascular Changes in the Microcirculation: Arterial Remodeling and Capillary Rarefaction
Fig. 5.1 Remodeling of small arteries and arterioles in hypertension is inward (smaller lumen) and could be eutrophic, with no increase in the media cross-sectional area despite a thickened media…
Perinatal Programming of Cardiovascular Disease
5. Jarvelin M-R (2000) Fetal and infant markers of adult heart disease. Heart 84:219–226CrossRefPubMedCentralPubMed 6. Brenner BM, Garcia DL, Anderson S (1998) Glomeruli and blood pressure: less of one, more…
Definition and Epidemiology of Arterial Disease
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015Adel Berbari and Giuseppe Mancia (eds.)Arterial Disorders10.1007/978-3-319-14556-3_1 1. Definition and Epidemiology of Arterial Disease Reza Aghamohammadzadeh1 , Danielle Ormandy2 and Anthony M. Heagerty1 (1) Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Manchester, 46 Grafton Street, Manchester,…
Atherosclerosis
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015Adel Berbari and Giuseppe Mancia (eds.)Arterial Disorders10.1007/978-3-319-14556-3_3 3. Atherosclerosis Michael Hristov1 and Christian Weber1 (1) Department of Vascular Medicine, Institute for Cardiovascular Prevention, Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU), Pettenkoferstr. 9, Munich, 80336, Germany …
