Atherosclerosis is Alzheimer's disease of blood vessels, study suggests
Tuesday, January 12, 2016 - 10:40
in Health & Medicine
In atherosclerosis, plaque builds up on the inner walls of arteries that deliver blood to the body. Studying mice and tissue samples from the arteries of patients, researchers now suggest this accumulation is driven, at least in part, by processes similar to the plaque formation implicated in brain diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.
