Atherosclerosis
Research from RWTH Aachen University, Department of Biomedical Engineering provides new data on atherosclerosis
Published in Blood Weekly, July 10th, 2008
Fresh data on atherosclerosis are presented in the report 'Mineral chaperones: a role for fetuin-A and osteopontin in the inhibition and regression of pathologic calcification.' "Clinical nephrologists are well aware of the consequences of pathologic mineralization (calcification). Several studies have found a strong association between vascular and valvular mineralization and advanced or end-stage chronic kidney disease (CKD), with shorter survival times and increased morbidity," researchers in Aachen, Germany report.
"In the cardiology community, until quite recently, ectopic mineralization was considered harmless or even beneficial. Some still assume that...
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