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Arteriosclerosis (or atherosclerosis) is the last stage of a kind of vasoconstriction that involves the thickening and hardening of arteries. More specifically, this condition involves the accumulation of plaques inside our blood vessel walls that lead to calcification, making the arteries less flexible and more fragile. Finally, as blood pressure increases (due to the small

Cholesterol is an essential part of our living organism, found in both human and animal cells. Without cholesterol organisms are incapable of living. Our bodies absorb cholesterol by attaching it to a specific protein (it is insoluble in blood on its own due to its fatty-like structure). These “attachments” are called lipoproteins and many variations