The evidence is convergent. Multiple independent sources reach the same conclusion, the underlying mechanism is well-characterized, and even the field's most cautious voices treat it as worth doing.
The, you know, the monocyte engulfs it, eats it, essentially. And then, the lipoprotein, which was supposed to be delivering, you know, triglycerides to your muscles, well, it's kind of like a Trojan horse, it's now stuck in the intima. And, you know, it dies there, essentially. So, the cholesterol, the triglycerides, they just kind of leak out into the intimal space, and it causes swelling in that territory.
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And what I tell my patients is, you know, once it gets stuck there, it's not coming out. And it's just a matter of how bad is the immune response going to be.
but what is a plaque it's not just LDL cholesterol it's LDL cholesterol and apob containing lipoproteins that have been eaten engulfed by macrophages
so this was the What We Now call the foam cell uh which is just a lot of cholesterol uh in the interior of these Mac rages and under the microscope they look very foamy so that's how they got their name foam cells