Abstract :
Although atherosclerosis is an old disease that had been detected even inancient Egyptian mummies, the incidence increased rapidly in the last century and has become an epidemic. Urbanization and industrialization, along with changes in dietary habits such as increased consumption of unsaturated fat in the diet, smoking, increase in the frequency of diabetes mellitus caused by similar reasons and lifestyle changes like sedentary lifestyle are the important factors that contribute to the formation of this structure. The curative treatments of diseases that cause early deaths such asinfectious diseases prolonged the life expectancy of population and contributed to aging and emergence of atherosclerosis and associated different clinical situations.
