Preface

Throughout the world, cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a leading cause of mortality and illness. This is mainly because of atherosclerosis and its clinical manifestation. As the ultimate cause of atherosclerosis is still a mystery, all of our attention is devoted to the treatment of its sequence or to reduce modifiable risk factors such as smoking, sedentariness, nutritional imbalance, blood pressure elevation, impaired glucose tolerance and diabetes, dislypidemia, overweight and abdominal adiposity and markers of chronic inflammation