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atherosclerosis

a stage of arteriosclerosis involving fatty deposits (atheromas) inside the arterial walls, thus narrowing the arteries

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Six example sentences with atherosclerosis, each labelled with its topic.

  • Decades of poor diet left him with atherosclerosis, and a scan showed blood squeezing through a channel half its old width.

    Medicine

  • Cardiologists point to endurance training as one of the few habits that slow atherosclerosis in middle aged patients.

    Fitness

  • Researchers tracked atherosclerosis in mice by staining the greasy plaque that had built up along each vessel lining.

    Science

  • Scans of Egyptian mummies revealed atherosclerosis in a third of them, so the condition is not a modern invention.

    History

  • The cookbook swaps butter for olive oil in every recipe, citing studies that link the change to slower atherosclerosis.

    Cooking

  • Patients with long-running hostility scores showed more atherosclerosis at fifty than calmer peers with identical cholesterol.

    Psychology

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