Atherosclerosis Accelerates the Development of Clonal Hematopoiesis by Colleen Fleiss on February 28, 2021 at 8:26 PM
Atherosclerosis (cardiovascular disease) causes clonal hematopoiesis a common age-related condition in which the descendants of one of these hematopoietic stem cells begin to dominate substantial portions of the blood, stated a new study published in Cell.
Billions of peripheral white blood cells are produced every day by the regular divisions of hematopoietic stem cells and their descendants in the bone marrow. Under normal circumstances, thousands of stem cells contribute progeny to the blood at any given time, making white blood cells a group with diverse ancestry.