arteriosclerosis
thickening, hardening and loss of elasticity of the walls of arteries
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Summary
arteriosclerosis is a class of disease[1]. arteriosclerosis ranks in the top 8% of class of disease entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (5,483 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Subclass of: artery disease[3]
- Commons category: Atherosclerosis[4]
- Has cause: ageing[5], heredity[6], arterial hypertension[7], hyperlipidemia[8], diabetes[9], hyperuricemia[10], tobacco smoking[11], obesity[12], stress[13], man[14]
- NCI Thesaurus ID: C34398[15]
- Different from: atherosclerosis[16]
- Health specialty: cardiology[17]
- Drug or therapy used for treatment: gemfibrozil[18], simvastatin[19], colestyramine[20], atorvastatin[21], fluvastatin[22], colesevelam[23], lovastatin[24], dextrothyroxine[25], fenofibrate[26], isoxsuprine[27], probucol[28], cerivastatin[29], pravastatin[30], colestipol[31]
- Exact match: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/DOID_2349[32], http://identifiers.org/doid/DOID:2349[33], http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/HP_0002634[34]
- On focus list of Wikimedia project: WikiProject Medicine[35]
- Possible medical findings: pulsus magnus[36]
Why It Matters
arteriosclerosis has Wikipedia articles in 22 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[37] arteriosclerosis is known by 77 alternative names across languages and contexts.[38]