The major causes of mortalities in Indonesia shifs to Non Communicable Diseases (NCDs). One of the most common NCDs was Coronary Heart Diseases which was linked to common preventable risk factors that related to physiological factors (intermediate risk factors) i.e hypertension, obesity and central obesity, diabetes. Data from Indonesia National Basic Health Survey Health Survey 2007 had been a…
Several theories on the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis may be integrated into a single multifactorial one. According to this theory, the most probable sequence of events involved in early atherosclerosis is a vascular dysfunction or injury, monocyte and macrofage recruitment, lipid deposition, synthesis of extracellular matrix. The interaction of all these factors will create the characteristi…