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Commonality with cancer

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Ageing is associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease caused by the rupture of inflamed cholesterol plaques in arteries. It emerges that this might be partly due to genetic mutations that cause cancerous changes in white blood cells.

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Figure 1: A mechanism for accelerated atherosclerosis.

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  1. Alan R. Tall is in the Division of Molecular Medicine, Department of Medicine, Columbia University, New York, New York 10032, USA.,

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  2. Ross L. Levine is in the Human Oncology and Pathogenesis Program and Leukemia Service, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York 10065, USA.,

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