Shear stress and plaque development

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Although traditional cardiovascular risk factors 'prime the soil' for atherogenesis systemically, atherosclerosis primarily occurs in a site-specific manner with a predilection towards the inner wall of curvatures and outer wall of bifurcations with sparing of flow-dividers. Wall shear stress is a frictional force exerted parallel to the vessel wall that leads to alteration of the endothelial phenotype,...

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