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Volume 155, Number 21 (May 22, 1999)

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Hot spots may signal heart attacks

Tiny changes in temperature along artery walls might indicate both the presence of atherosclerotic plaques and which plaques are most likely to rupture.

References:

Stefanadis, C., et al. Thermal heterogeneity within human atherosclerotic coronary arteries detected in vivo. Circulation 99(April 20):1965.

Sources:

David A. Myerson
Johns Hopkins University
3400 North Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21218

From Science News, Vol. 155, No. 21, May 22, 1999, p. 331. Copyright © 1999, Science Service.

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