What's the link between snot and heart disease?

1,504 views · Published 31 July 2014 · 1:29 · Indexed 31 October 2026

Channel: UNSW · 2014 · Science & Technology

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Did you know that the same goop that makes our snot green gets dumped in our arteries. Dr Martin Rees, UNSW Medicine, would like to reveal how a protective lining in our blood vessels becomes damaged and sticky in heart disease and test whether novel drugs he's developed can prevent this.

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