Scientific session of the Cardiological Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences "ischemic heart disease"

The scientific session of the Cardiological Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences was devoted to ischemic heart disease. Acad. LAMN, prof. VN Smirnov in the message Atherosclerosis and Ischemic Heart Disease: Interrelation of Development Mechanisms "noted that now no one doubts the role of cholesterol in the development of ischemic heart disease. According to Swedish scientists, lowering cholesterol levels by 30% reduces mortality from myocardial infarction (MI) by the same amount. As the speaker noted, today human health must be considered from the point of view of the state of his vessels. He presented, as it were, a revived theory of the inflammatory origin of atherosclerosis, the essence of which is damage to the vascular endothelium by a nonspecific inflammatory agent. If in a newborn the endothelium has a fine-mesh structure, then by 3-5 years large endothelial cells, the so-called clusters, appear in this finely branched network. By the age of 20, the surface of the vessels, on which mainly atherosclerotic changes are detected, for example, the large aorta, becomes heterogeneous.