Tortuosity and atherosclerosis in the femoral artery: What is cause and what is effect?

Pulsatile flow and atherosclerosis in the human carotid bifurcation. Positive correlation between plaque location and low oscillating shear stress.

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Atheroma and arterial wall shear - Observation, correlation and proposal of a shear dependent mass transfer mechanism for atherogenesis

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Correlation between intimal thickness and fluid shear in human arteries

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Maurice H. Friedman, O. J. Deters, F F Mark et al. · Atherosclerosis · 1983 · 260 citations

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The effect of probucol on femoral atherosclerosis: The Probucol Quantitative Regression Swedish Trial (PQRST)

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