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How can fat and cholesterol get into your blood system and clog up the arteries?
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In Short: It gets taken up into the cells. Then, immune cells called monocytes see it and turn into their bigger, meaner cousin called macrophages. Those macrophages get angry and foam things up in the tissues and lead to the repetition of this cycle.
Answered 2/25/2018
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