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What’s left over is processed by the liver and turned into cholesterol, which enters the bloodstream and can build up in the arteries of the heart and brain.

This region is essential for communication between brain networks but is also vulnerable to reduced blood flow from distal arteries, which carry blood from the heart to the outermost parts of the body.

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She stated the actual cause of death was narrowing and "calcification of his coronary arteries due to old age".

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There, she said, doctors treated her partially blocked arteries in the heart, telling her she had suffered a minor heart attack.

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They are the arteries through which credit is extended, wages are paid, savings are stashed or withdrawn.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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