RT Journal
A1 Holman RL, McGill HC, Jr., Strong JP, Geer JC
T1 FIltration versus local formation of lipids in pathogenesis of atherosclerosis
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1959
FD May 23
VO 170
IS 4
SP 416
OP 420
DO 10.1001/jama.1959.03010040012003
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1959.03010040012003
AB Efforts should be directed toward detection, concentration, and possible clinical utilization of active principles that govern lipid transportation and local accumulation. The best available evidence makes it seem likely that these active principles are enzyme-hormone complexes and indicates that active metabolic work is performed by the mesenchymal cells in the inner layers of the arterial wall. Much confusion can be avoided by keeping interspecies differences in mind and recognizing the probable stage of atherosclerosis in man at any given age. The three stages leading to clinical disease are fatty streaking in the first two decades, conversion of some fatty streaks to fibrous plaques in the second two decades, and local complications such as hemorrhage and thrombosis about a plaque in the third two decades.