System wide : Ateriosclerosis is a systemic disease. If its noted in the brain its called cerebral vascular disease, in the heart, coronary artey disease, and in the extremities peripheral vascular disease.
Answered 3/15/2013
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Types or 10 Stages?: While atherosclerosis/arteriosclerosis is a body wide, all arteries, process, pathologists have long classified it into 10 differenct stages correlating with both duration & severity of the disease state. In an advanced lesion, at autopsy, one may be able to find all 10 stages within a single section of an artery.
Answered 12/10/2013
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