Atherosclerosis brings together, from all sources, papers concerned with investigation on atherosclerosis, its risk factors, and clinical manifestations.
Atherosclerosis covers basic and translational clinical and population research approaches to arterial and vascular biology and disease, as well as their risk factors which include: disturbances of lipid and lipoprotein metabolism, diabetesand hypertension, thrombosis, and inflammation.
Atherosclerosis particularly welcomes original or review papers regarding the pathogenesis, the environmental, genetic, and epigenetic basis, and the diagnosis, treatment, and risk factors of atherosclerosis and related diseases.

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Original Research Papers
Basic Research Papers 
Clinical and Population Research Papers
Translational Research Papers
Rapid Communications
Case reports
short communications
Review Articles.
Clinical and Scientific Debates on Atherosclerosis.
Conference reports.
Editorials and Correspondence.

Editor-in-Chief
Arnold von Eckardstein
University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Immediate Past Editor
Steve Humphries
University College London, London, United Kingdom
Supplements Editor
Alberico Catapano
University of Milan, Milano, Italy
Co-Editors
Christoph Binder
Medical University of Vienna, Wien, Austria
Jan Borén
University of Gothenburg, Goteborg, Sweden
Alberico Catapano
University of Milan, Milano, Italy
Geesje Dallinga-Thie
Amsterdam Cardiovascular Sciences, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Florian Kronenberg
Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
Ziad Mallat
University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Paolo Raggi
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Associate Editors
Carlos A. Aguilar Salinas
National Institute of Medical Sciences and Nutrition Salvador Zubirán Department Endocrinology and Metabolism, Mexico City, Mexico
Mouaz H. Al-Mallah
National Guard Health Affairs, Texas, USA
Antonio Bellasi
Azienda Socio Sanitaria Territoriale Lariana, Como, Italy
Giuseppina Caligiuri
Hospital Bichat - Claude-Bernard, Paris, France
Yiannis Chatzizisis
Brigham and Women's Hospital Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Giovanni Corrao
University of Milan–Bicocca, Milano, Italy
Emanuele Di Angelantonio
University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
David A. Dichek
University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States
Heinz Drexel
University of Bern Cluster for Cardiovascular Research, Berne, Switzerland
Miranda van Eck
Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands
Costanza Emanueli
University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
Gian Paolo Fadini
University of Padua, Padova, Italy
Brian A Ference
Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan, United States
Carlos Fernández-Hernando
YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Jacques Genest
McGill University, Montréal, Quebec, Canada
Philip Gordts
University of California San Diego Department of Medicine, La Jolla, California, United States
Marleen van Greevenbroek
Maastricht University Medical Centre+, Maastricht, Netherlands
Jörg Heeren
University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
Robert Hegele
London Regional Genomics Centre, London, Ontario, Canada
Hanjoong Jo
Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Rory Koenen
Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands
Yoshihiro Kokubo
National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center, Suita, Japan
Marlys Koschinsky
Robarts Research Institute, London, Ontario, Canada
Karam Kostner
Mater Hospital Brisbane, South Brisbane, Australia
Johan Kuiper
Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands
Claudia Lamina
Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
Irene M. Lang
Medical University of Vienna, Wien, Austria
Harald Langer
University of Lubeck, Lubeck, Germany
George Liu
Peking University, Beijing, China
Esther Lutgens
University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Dianna Magliano
Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Australia
G.B. John Mancini
The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
A. D. Marais
University of Cape Town Faculty of Health Sciences, Observatory, South Africa
Laurent Martinez
Toulouse 1 University Capitole, Toulouse, France
Nikolaus Marx
RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
Yukihiko Momiyama
National Hospital Organisation Tokyo Medical Center, Tokyo, Japan
Samia Mora
Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Stephen J. Nicholls
South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute, Adelaide, Australia
Danilo Norata
University of Milan, Milano, Italy
Katariina Öörni
Wihuri Research Institute, HELSINKI, Finland
Paolo Parini
Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
Gianluca Pontone
Monzino Cardiology Centre, Milano, Italy
Gissette Reyes-Soffer
Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York, United States
Attilio Rigotti
Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, Santiago, Chile
Wolfram Ruf
Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany
Keijiro Saku
Fukuoka University, Fukuoka, Japan
Raul D. Santos
Sao Paulo University Faculty of Medicine, SAO PAULO, Brazil
Gerit-Holger Schernthaner
Medical University of Vienna, Wien, Austria
Arno Schmidt-Trucksäss
University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Zhi-Gang She
Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
Oliver Soehnlein
Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, Munich, Germany
Gerald Watts
The University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Paul Welsh
University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
Laurent Yvan-Charvet
University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, Nice, France
Andreas Zirlik
University Hospital Freiburg Cardiac Centre Freiburg Bad Krozingen Freiburg Branch, Freiburg, Germany
Statistics Editor
Michael Tanck
University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Editorial Board Members
Hisashi Adachi
Kurume University, Kurume, Japan
Walter Ageno
University of Insubria, Varese, Italy
Stefan Agewall
University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
Pauline Alakija
DynaLIFE, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Anuska V Andjelkovic
University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
Benoit Arsenault
Laval University, Quebec, Canada
Reto Asmis
Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States
Johann Auer
Krankenhaus St. Josef Braunau, Abteilung Innere Medizin I, Braunau, Austria
Maurizio Averna
University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy
Lina Badimon
Catalan Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences, Barcelona, Spain
Kevin R Bainey
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Maciej Banach
Medical University of Lodz, Lodz, Poland
Hugh Barrett
The University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Phillip Barter
Heart Research Institute Ltd, Newtown, Australia
Lars Berglund
University of California Davis Medical Center, Davis, California, United States
Michael Berndt
Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Jürgen Bernhagen
Ludwig Maximilians University LMU University Hospital Munich, Munich, Germany
Erik Biessen
RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
Manfred Boehm
National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States
Bert-Jan van den Born
University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Matt Bown
Leicester Royal Infirmary, Leicester, United Kingdom
Hideaki Bujo
Toho University Sakura Medical Center Department of Clinical Laboratory, Sakura, Japan
John R. Burnett
The University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Jaap D. van Buul
Sanquin Research, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Germán Camejo
Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
Bertrand Cariou
Thorax Institute, Nantes, France
Luiz Sergio F Carvalho
State University of Campinas Faculty of Medical Sciences, São Paulo, Brazil
Manuel Castro Cabezas
Franciscus Gasthuis, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Dick Chan
The University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
John Chapman
Dyslipidemias Inflammation and Atherosclerosis in Metabolic Disease, Paris, France
Gulia Chinetti
University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, Nice, France
Benjamin Chow
University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Andrea Cignarella
University of Padova School of Medicine and Surgery, Padova, Italy
Luca De Nicola
University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Napoli, Italy
Jean-Pierre Després
Laval University, Quebec, Canada
Marcello Di Nisio
Gabriele d'Annunzio University of Chieti and Pescara, Chieti, Italy
Moses Elisaf
University of Ioannina Faculty of Medicine, Ioannina, Greece
Enzo Emanuele
University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy
Ertugrul Ercan
Medical Park İzmir Hospital Department of Cardiology, Ìzmir, Turkey
Zahi Fayad
Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, New York, United States
Massimo Federici
University of Rome Tor Vergata, Roma, Italy
Gemma Figtree
The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Gordon Francis
The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Sven Francque
University Hospital Antwerp, Department of Gastroenterology Hepatology & Translational Sciences in Inflammation and Immunology (TWI2N), Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Edegem, Belgium
Ruth Frikke-Schmidt
Copenhagen University Hospital, København, Denmark
Sarah Jane George
Bristol Royal Infirmary, Bristol, United Kingdom
Jonathan Golledge
James Cook University College of Medicine and Dentistry, Townsville, Australia
Ian M. Graham
University of Dublin Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
Eric de Groot
University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Milan Gupta
McMaster University Department of Medicine, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Martin S. Hagger
University of California Merced, Psychological Sciences, Merced, California, United States
Mariko Harada-Shiba
National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center, Suita, Japan
Atsushi Hirayama
Nihon University School of Medicine Graduate School of Medicine, Itabashi-Ku, Japan
Eva Hurt-Camejo
University of Gothenburg, Goteborg, Sweden
Katsu Ikewaki
National Defense Medical College School of Medicine Department of Neurology Anti-Aging and Vascular Medicine, Saitama, Japan
Nadia Jahroudi
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Matti Jauhiainen
Minerva Institute for Medical Research, HELSINKI, Finland
Lixin Jiang
Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College Fuwai Hospital, Xicheng District, China
Fredrik Karpe
University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
Soji Kasayama
Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine Department of Neurosurgery, Suita, Japan
Bronwyn Kingwell
Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Australia
Wolfgang Koenig
Ulm University, Ulm, Germany
Dagmar Kratky
University of Graz, Graz, Austria
Leonard Kritharides
The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Jan Albert Kuivenhoven
University of Groningen Faculty of Medical Sciences, Groningen, Netherlands
Ulf Landmesser
Charite University Hospital Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Ulrich Laufs
Saarland University Hospital Internal Medicine III Cardiology Angiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Homburg, Germany
Jonathan Leipsic
The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
François Mach
University Hospital Geneva Division of fCardiology, Geneva, Switzerland
Dr. Mike Mackness
The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
John Mamo
Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Santica Marcovina
University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States
Lluis Masana
Sant Joan University Hospital of Reus, Reus, Spain
Michael McMurtry
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Peter Meikle
Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Australia
Trevor A. Mori
The University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Emilio Moriguchi
Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Antonio Moschetta
Padiglione Chini, UOC Medicina Interna Frugoni,Department of Interdisciplinary Medicine,Università di Bari, Bari, Italy
Eric K. Moses
The University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Andrew Murphy
Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Australia
Yasuyuki Nakamura
Ryukoku University Faculty of Agriculture, Otsu, Japan
Eliano P Navarese
IRCCS MultiMedica, Sesto San Giovanni, Italy
Hapizah M. Nawawi
IRCCS MultiMedica, Sesto San Giovanni, Italy
R. Dermot G. Neely
Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom
Paul Nestel
Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Australia
Andrew C. Newby
Bristol Royal Infirmary, Bristol, United Kingdom
Lars Bo Nielsen
Copenhagen University Hospital, København, Denmark
Jerzy-Roch Nofer
University Hospital Munster, Munster, Germany
Vesa Olkkonen
Minerva Institute for Medical Research, HELSINKI, Finland
Raj Padwal
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Gerard Pasterkamp
University Medical Centre, Utrecht, Netherlands
Frederick J. Raal
University of the Witwatersrand School of Clinical Medicine, Johannesburg, South Africa
Zeljko Reiner
University Hospital Centre Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Alan Remaley
National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States
Patrick Rensen
Leiden University Medical Center Endocrinology, Leiden, Netherlands
Niels Riksen
Radboudumc, Nijmegen, Netherlands
Paolo Rubba
University of Naples Federico II, Napoli, Italy
Larry Rudel
Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States
Carlos Garcia Santos-Gallego
Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, New York, United States
Dr. Gaetano Santulli
Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York, United States
Johannes A. Schmidt
Medical University of Vienna Institute of Vascular Biology and Thrombosis Research, Wien, Austria
Carl Schultz
The University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Angelo Scuteri
University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy
Consolato Maria Sergi
University of Alberta Hospital, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Eric J.G. Sijbrands
Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Handrean Soran
Manchester Royal Infirmary, Manchester, United Kingdom
Andrei Sposito
State University of Campinas, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil
Dmitri Sviridov
Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Australia
Ilker Tasci
Gülhane Training and Research Hospital, Ankara, Turkey
Lale Tokgözoglu
Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey
Guglielmo M. Trovato
University of Catania, Catania, Italy
Sotirios Tsimikas
University of California San Diego Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, La Jolla, California, United States
Emiel van der Vorst
Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, Munich, Germany
Michal Vrablík
Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
Peter Weinberg
Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
Robert Welsh
Alberta Health Services, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Olov Wiklund
University of Gothenburg, Goteborg, Sweden
Kristiaan Wouters
Maastricht University Cardiovascular Research Institute Maastricht, Maastricht, Netherlands
Shizuya Yamashita
Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Suita, Japan
Noam Zelcer
University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Alma Zernecke
University Hospital Wurzburg, Wurzburg, Germany
Managing Editor
Simona Negrini
University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland