Atherosclerosis
"Atherosclerosis" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
A thickening and loss of elasticity of the walls of ARTERIES that occurs with formation of ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUES within the ARTERIAL INTIMA.
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D050197
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C14.907.137.126.307
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Atherosclerosis" by people in this website by year, and whether "Atherosclerosis" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| 2004 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2005 | 0 | 2 | 2 | | 2006 | 7 | 4 | 11 | | 2007 | 6 | 2 | 8 | | 2008 | 6 | 4 | 10 | | 2009 | 12 | 6 | 18 | | 2010 | 8 | 3 | 11 | | 2011 | 6 | 7 | 13 | | 2012 | 9 | 4 | 13 | | 2013 | 15 | 3 | 18 | | 2014 | 14 | 5 | 19 | | 2015 | 13 | 2 | 15 | | 2016 | 17 | 2 | 19 | | 2017 | 7 | 2 | 9 | | 2018 | 12 | 7 | 19 | | 2019 | 14 | 9 | 23 | | 2020 | 11 | 1 | 12 | | 2021 | 14 | 5 | 19 | | 2022 | 20 | 1 | 21 | | 2023 | 17 | 0 | 17 | | 2024 | 12 | 2 | 14 | | 2025 | 12 | 2 | 14 | | 2026 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Atherosclerosis" by people in Profiles.
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Hu X, Araujo DS, Khunsriraksakul C, Wang L, Sun Q, Wen J, Zhou L, Ekunwe L, Lange LA, Lange EM, Montgomery SB, Reiner AP, Aguet F, Ardlie KG, Lappalainen T, Gignoux CR, Burchard EG, Taylor KD, Guo X, Rotter JI, Rich SS, Cornell E, Durda P, Tracy RP, Liu Y, Johnson WC, Papanicolaou GP, Perera MA, Cho MH, Liu DJ, Raffield LM, Li Y, Wheeler HE, Im HK, Manichaikul A. Multi-ancestry transcriptome prediction with functionally informed variants in TOPMed MESA improves performance of transcriptome-wide association studies. Am J Hum Genet. 2026 04 02; 113(4):828-841.
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Diggs MR, Chu SM, Fitch KV, Olefsky M, Watanabe MG, Erlandson KM, Lu AB, Bloomfield GS, Currier JS, Curran A, Eckard AR, Smith GHR, Sponseller CA, Fichtenbaum CJ, Malvestutto CD, Aberg JA, Foldyna B, Taron J, Karady J, Zanni MV, Douglas PS, Ribaudo HJ, Lu MT, Grinspoon SK. Health-related quality of life among people with HIV at low-to-moderate risk for atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease in the REPRIEVE Trial. AIDS. 2026 Apr 01; 40(4):428-439.
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Liu F, Schrack JA, Walker KA, Walston J, Mathias RA, Griswold ME, Palta P, Windham BG, Jackson JW. The effect of long-term adherence to physical activity recommendations in midlife on plasma proteins associated with frailty in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) study. Eur J Epidemiol. 2026 Jan; 41(1):51-69.
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Wu X, Wilke M, Batara J, Proctor S, Cree M, Ghosh M, Raggi P, Windram J, Becher H, Vine D. Atherogenic ApoB-dyslipidemia, atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, cardiac dysfunction and remodeling in high-risk young women with and without polycystic ovary syndrome: A pilot study. Front Endocrinol (Lausanne). 2025; 16:1520922.
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Nicholls SJ, Nelson AJ, Ray KK, Ballantyne CM, Ditmarsch M, Kling D, Hsieh A, Szarek M, Kastelein JJ, Davidson MH. Impact of Obicetrapib on Major Adverse Cardiovascular Events in High-Risk Patients: A Pooled Analysis. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2025 Oct 07; 86(14):1046-1056.
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Wanachottrakul N, Pinkaew D, Mukherjee S, Chunhacha P, Nakashima M, Brockman AA, Pal U, Halim HB, Wei Y, Tanaka L, Huynh H, Ramana K, Chen S, Ihrie RA, Fujise K. Fortilin deficiency induces anti-atherosclerotic phenotypes in macrophages and protects hypercholesterolemic mice against atherosclerosis. Commun Biol. 2025 Jul 11; 8(1):1040.
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Kirmani S, Huan T, Van Amburg JC, Joehanes R, Uddin MM, Nguyen NQH, Yu B, Brody JA, Fornage M, Bressler J, Sotoodehnia N, Ong DA, Puddu F, Floyd JS, Ballantyne CM, Psaty BM, Raffield LM, Natarajan P, Conneely KN, Weinstock JS, Carson AP, Lange LA, Ferrier K, Heard-Costa NL, Murabito J, Bick AG, Levy D. Epigenome-wide DNA methylation association study of CHIP provides insight into perturbed gene regulation. Nat Commun. 2025 May 20; 16(1):4678.
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Clayton ZS, Kehmeier MN, Rosenberry R, Larson EA, Debray A, Cheng S, Moreau KL. Arteries and Hearts in Motion: Sex Differences in Exercise-Mediated Protection Against Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease Risk. Curr Atheroscler Rep. 2025 May 16; 27(1):56.
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Nicholls SJ, Nelson AJ, Ditmarsch M, Kastelein JJP, Ballantyne CM, Ray KK, Navar AM, Nissen SE, Harada-Shiba M, Curcio DL, Neild A, Kling D, Hsieh A, Butters J, Ference BA, Laufs U, Banach M, Mehran R, Catapano AL, Huo Y, Szarek M, Balinskaite V, Davidson MH. Safety and Efficacy of Obicetrapib in Patients at High Cardiovascular Risk. N Engl J Med. 2025 Jul 03; 393(1):51-61.
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Gupta P, Bast JA, Razavi AC, Canonico ME, Shahzad A, Naeem M, Bonaca MP, Sperling LS, Quintana RA. Hypertension in atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease: insights into epidemiology, management strategies, and outcomes. Curr Opin Cardiol. 2025 Jul 01; 40(4):206-212.
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