Arterial Aging and Age-Associated Arterial Diseases
Description:... The underlying mechanisms behind aging has long been a great scientific mystery that the biomedical research community has long studied. In developed nations, as the population grows older, increases in life expectancy is increasingly limited by our relatively poor control of chronic aging-associated diseases such as arterial aging. Among age-related conditions that negatively influence longevity. Growing evidence demonstrates that arterial aging is fundamentally caused by a proinflammatory process that begins at birth and results in detrimental effects that affects every organ system. Vascular aging is the leading risk factor for quintessential cardiovascular diseases such as hypertension and atherosclerosis. With aging, vascular walls develop a pro-inflammatory and stressed microenvironment characterized by both an upregulation of pro-inflammatory chemokines and cytokines as well as a down-regulation anti-inflammatory counterparts. This chronic imbalance in inflammatory regulatory networks is the key driver of changes at the cellular and molecular level that result in hypertensive and atherosclerotic arterial. Thus, an intervention of proinflammation may be a viable therapeutic intervention to reduce morbidity and mortality from cardiovascular diseases. In this eBook, we aim to supply an updated overview of the physiological and biochemical mechanisms that affect inflammation and vascular aging. We believe that this eBook will contribute to the understanding of the pathogenesis of many chronic or age-related diseases, as well as to their treatment with both current and new therapeutic approaches.
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