Inflammation and Your Blood Vessels
What inflammation is, and the part it plays in vascular disease.
Inflammation is your body's repair response. In the short term it is doing exactly what it should. The question researchers have spent decades on is what happens when it never quite switches off.
The honest summary: inflammation is not a side note in vascular disease, and it is not the whole story either.
Two findings, side by side
American Heart Association
Independent
association between the inflammation marker hsCRP and cardiovascular disease, separate from cholesterol and blood pressure
CANTOS trial, NEJM
Lower risk
in a large trial that reduced inflammation directly, even in people whose cholesterol was already controlled
What you will find here
- What inflammation is, in plain terms
- How it acts on the lining of a blood vessel
- What a CRP result does and does not tell you
- Which everyday things raise it, and which claims run ahead of the evidence
Reading on inflammation and your blood vessels
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Thrombosis and Inflammation: The Connection
This dynamic and complex subject is being explored across the medical community.
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Inflammation and Blood Clots: What You Should Know
You’ve probably heard the word “inflammation,” especially when talking about health. But what does it mean, and what does it have to do with blood clots?
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Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Blood Clots: What’s the Connection
Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) affects more than 3 million adults in the U.S., and research shows that patients with IBD have a 3-4 times higher risk of developing thrombosis (blood clots) than people without IBD.
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