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When Walls Go Bad: Atherosclerosis

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CHART CLUE

Stina eats carefully, has never smoked, and keeps a normal blood pressure — yet her LDL keeps climbing, a coronary calcium scan reads high for her age, and an incidental film catches a calcified clot in a pelvic vein (a renal phlebolith). Her vessels are aging ahead of her birthday, and the missing risk factor is chronic inflammation itself.

The Story

From Stina’s chart:

Compare Stina’s uninfected appendix to an infected appendix.

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