Assertion: atherosclerosis | /r/CapableOf | affect arterial blood vessels
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text: Atherosclerosis is thus a syndrome affecting arterial blood vessels due to a chronic inflammatory response in the artery walls.
text: Atherosclerosis is therefore a syndrome affecting arterial blood vessels due to a chronic inflammatory response of WBCs in the walls of arteries.
text: It is a syndrome affecting arterial blood vessels, a chronic inflammatory response in the walls of arteries, caused largely by the accumulation of macrophage white blood cells and promoted by low-density lipoproteins without adequate removal of fats and cholesterol from the macrophages by functional high-density lipoproteins.