What aspects of health are related to vascular biology?
Vascular diseases are major health problems and encompass the leading causes of death and disability. This category of clinical disease includes: states of cardiovascular risk such as hyper-cholesterolemia, hypertension, and diabetes; the systemic features of atherosclerosis, such as coronary and peripheral artery disease, and cerebrovascular disease and stroke; conditions for which angiogenesis plays a role, such as wound healing and cancer, and retinal disease in diabetes, atherosclerosis and sickle disease; disorders of endothelial dysfunction and vascular dysregulation, as occurs in shock, sepsis, Raynaud’s disease, and migraine; primary and secondary pulmonary hypertension; the sickling disorders; thrombophilia and thrombotic complications such as stroke, arterial or venous thrombosis, fetal wastage, and pulmonary embolism; abnormal bleeding due to inherited or acquired states such as hemophilia and disseminated intravascular coagulation; inflammatory diseases that involve partici
