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Foreword| Volume 13, ISSUE 3, P341-342, May 2019

From the editor: Atherosclerosis in different flavors

      Does atherosclerosis come in different flavors? A longstanding rule in atherosclerosis pathology is that plaques develop along the same pattern regardless of the dominant risk factor(s) driving the process. Thus atherosclerosis in hypercholesterolemia cannot be distinguished pathologically from atherosclerosis in diabetes with high triglycerides and low HDL, and atherosclerosis in a patient with lupus looks pretty much the same.
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