excess LDL carried cholesterol is deposited inside the arteries, lining the endothelium causes an atheroma to be formed ...

The build-up forms an atheroma (degeneration of the walls of the arteries) under the endothelium (cells that line the interior surface of blood vessels).

The primary end point, percentage change in coronary atheroma volume ... arteriography at baseline and 18 months. The target artery could not have had an intervention and a luminal narrowing ...

Oil red O (ORO) stain of neutral lipid of an atheroma histological section, from an ICG-injected animal. This image relates to a paper that appeared in the May 25, 2011, issue of Science ...