Arteries are more prone to damage than veins due to higher pressures, leading to atherosclerosis, especially in individuals with impaired wound healing.

“and we talked about this a little bit before we jumped on the fact that there is no such thing as atherosclerosis in veins and at the Rose School roses only happens in arteries and what we know is that arteries and veins are both blood vessels and the arterial wall is a little different than the venous wall but if anything the major difference is the amount of pressure in the arteries the vein and what we see a lot of times for atherosclerosis is they happen in arterial bifurcations where there's probably scorpions and so I think this is actually really compelling and and compatible with what you're saying the idea that perhaps it's in arteries where there's higher pressure that you're getting more turbulent blood flow this could be happening at arterial bifurcations that is causing injury to the arterial wall”