Concise: Atherosclerosis - A Fatty Disease

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Here we briefly talk about current cardiovascular research.
Cardiovascular diseases are the most common cause of death in the world (these conditions include strokes, heart infarctions or peripheral artery diseases). Many factors contributes towards plaque development, such as diet, age, gender or smoking. Although the development of new treatments is crucial for society a lot of research still has to be done.

Table of contents:
1) What are cardiovascular diseases? (0:22)
2) Fatty diets and atherosclerosis (0:40)
3) Sick mummies (1:10)
4) Other risk factors for developing cardiovascular diseaes (1:40)
5) From fat disease to immune disease (2:06)
6) Current research topics (3:40)
7) Conclusion (4:40)
Some relevant publications:
Thompson, Randall C., et al. "Atherosclerosis across 4000 years of human history: the Horus study of four ancient populations." The lancet 381.9873 (2013): 1211-1222.
Libby, Peter, Paul M. Ridker, and Göran K. Hansson. "Progress and challenges in translating the biology of atherosclerosis." Nature 473.7347 (2011): 317.

Music:
Intro:
Light Sting by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
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Transitions:
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About Clemens Steinek:
CLEMENS STEINEK is a postgraduate student/youtuber (LifeLabLearner) who is currently conducting stem cell research in Germany.

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