Vascular complications of diabetes pose a severe threat to human health. Prevention and
treatment protocols based on a single vascular complication are no longer suitable for the …

MIS-C is a newly defined post-viral myocarditis and inflammatory vasculopathy of children
following COVID-19 infection. This review summarizes the literature on diagnosis …

Human evolution suggests that the default position for health is to be physically active.
Inactivity, by contrast, has serious negative effects on health across the lifespan. Therefore …

The pathophysiology of vascular disease is linked to accelerated biological aging and a
combination of genetic, lifestyle, biological, and environmental risk factors. Within the …

Vascular aging contributes to adverse changes in organ function and is a significant
indicator of major cardiac events. Endothelial cells (ECs) participate in aging-provoked …

With age, the physiological responses to occasional or regular stressors from a broad range
of functions tend to change and adjust at a different pace and restoring these functions in the …

Background Brachial artery FMD is widely used as a non-invasive measure of endothelial
function. Adherence to expert guidelines is believed to be of vital importance to obtain …

Purpose Sympathetic vasoconstriction plays a major role in the beat-to-beat control of blood
pressure. To be effective and thus avoid dangerously high or low blood pressures, this …

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is associated with excess cardiovascular mortality, resulting
from both traditional and nontraditional, CKD‐specific, cardiovascular risk factors …

Age is an important cardiovascular risk factor. Among others, age is associated with an
increased risk to develop thrombotic cardiovascular complications, both in the arterial (acute …