Young's modulus is a crucial mechanical property in engineering, as it defines the stiffness of a material and tells us how much it will deform for an applied stress. In this video I take a detailed ...

A new study shows young adults with higher exposure to atherogenic lipoprotein particles may be at a greater risk of ...

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The Young modulus is a mechanical property that describes the elasticity of a material. 110 The healthy myocardium has a Young modulus ranging from 10 to 30 kPa. 48, 111, 112 However, following ...

Myocardial infarction occurring in young people with angiographically normal coronary arteries is well described but the pathophysiology of this condition remains unknown. Coronary artery spasm in ...

Peripheral artery disease (PAD) is a vascular disorder caused by occlusive atherosclerosis, which commonly impairs blood flow to the lower extremities. The prevalence of PAD is increasing globally ...

Background: With improved survival rates of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), damage such as accelerated atherosclerosis gains increasing importance. Objective: To identify the ...

Cholesterol is not the whole story, he says. That number you chase after each year – LDL levels – that is not where the danger hides. It is what happens to those LDL particles that causes the damage.