There are two other forms of arteriosclerosis (hardening of the arteries) in addition to atherosclerosis: arteriolosclerosis and medial calcific sclerosis.
This is a different kind of arteriosclerosis.This is hyperplastic arteriolosclerosis, which most often appears in the kidney in patients with malignant hypertension.
There were 13 cases of arteriosclerosis obliterans, 11 cases of diabetic extremital gangrene, 5 cases of thromboangiitis obliterans, and 3 cases of arterious embolism of lower extremities.
This process of glycation particularly affects the efferent arteriole and causes it to get stiff and more narrow - a process called hyaline arteriosclerosis.
Could such a 'caloric-restriction mimetic', as we call it, enable people to stay healthy longer, postponing age-related disorders (such as diabetes, arteriosclerosis, heart disease and cancer) until very late in life?
And then we've got the problems on the blood vessel end, under sustained hypertension, you may see your otherwise elastic arteries go from being flexible balloons to stiff, hardened pipes, in what's called arteriosclerosis.