Endothelial dysfunction and cardiovascular disease

Endothelial dysfunction and cardiovascular disease

Healthy endothelium plays a central role in cardiovascular control. Therefore endothelial dysfunction (ED), which is characterized by an imbalance between relaxing and contracting factors, procoagulant and anticoagulant substances, and between proinflammatory and antiinflammatory mediators, may play a particularly significant role in the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis and cardiovascular diseas...

Endothelial dysfunction and cardiovascular disease

Healthy endothelium plays a central role in cardiovascular control. Therefore endothelial dysfunction (ED), which is characterized by an imbalance between relaxing and contracting factors, procoagulant and anticoagulant substances, and between proinflammatory and antiinflammatory mediators, may play a particularly significant role in the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis and cardiovascular diseas...

Endothelial dysfunction and cardiovascular disease

Healthy endothelium plays a central role in cardiovascular control. Therefore endothelial dysfunction (ED), which is characterized by an imbalance between relaxing and contracting factors, procoagulant and anticoagulant substances, and between proinflammatory and antiinflammatory mediators, may play a particularly significant role in the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis and cardiovascular diseas...

Endothelial dysfunction and cardiovascular disease

INTRODUCTION The endothelium, by area alone, is one of the largest organs in the body comprised of up to trillion cells, weighing over 1 kg, and covering nearly 3m in a 70 kg male. Moreover, it interacts with nearly every system in the body, and has been implicated in end organ diseases of systems such as neurologic, renal, hepatic, vascular, dermatologic, immunologic, and of course cardiac. Th...

Endothelial Dysfunction and Its Role in Cardiovascular Disease