{"id":92281,"date":"2019-06-18T12:23:09","date_gmt":"2019-06-18T19:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/cause-of-hardening-of-the-arteries-and-potential-treatment-identified"},"modified":"2019-06-18T12:23:09","modified_gmt":"2019-06-18T19:23:09","slug":"cause-of-hardening-of-the-arteries-and-potential-treatment-identified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/cause-of-hardening-of-the-arteries-and-potential-treatment-identified","title":{"rendered":"Cause of hardening of the arteries\u2014and potential treatment\u2014identified"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cause-of-hardening-of-the-arteries-and-potential-treatment-identified.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of UK scientists have identified the mechanism behind hardening of the arteries, and shown in animal studies that a generic medication normally used to treat acne could be an effective treatment for the condition.<\/p>\n<p>The team, led by the University of Cambridge and King\u2019s College London, found that a molecule once thought only to exist inside cells for the purpose of repairing DNA is also responsible for hardening of the arteries, which is associated with dementia, <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/heart+disease\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">heart disease<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/high+blood+pressure\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">high blood pressure<\/a> and stroke.<\/p>\n<p>There is no current treatment for hardening of the arteries, which is caused by build-up of bone-like calcium deposits, stiffening the arteries and restricting <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/blood+flow\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">blood flow<\/a> to organs and tissues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of UK scientists have identified the mechanism behind hardening of the arteries, and shown in animal studies that a generic medication normally used to treat acne could be an effective treatment for the condition. The team, led by the University of Cambridge and King\u2019s College London, found that a molecule once thought only [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}