Researcher at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis recently conducted a study that perhaps explains why people with autoimmune diseases are at a high risk of developing cardiovascular disease as well, reports Medical Xpress. Their findings were published today in Cell Metabolism.
While studying mice with a psoriasis like condition, researchers found that the mice’s blood vessels were stiff. These mice apparently had cholesterol trapped in the walls of their inflexible blood vessels. Typically, cholesterol would circulate freely between the blood and tissues, which was not occurring in these mice. This finding means that the trapped cholesterol in these mice promotes plaque build up that can cause heart attacks and strokes.
Gwendalyn Randolph, Ph.D., the Emil R. Unanue Distinguished Professor of Immunology and a professor of medicine stated some of these findings linked between autoimmune disorders and cardiovascular health.
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