"Atherosclerosis is a chronic inflammatory response, clinically asymptomatic in the first decade. The deposition of lipids in arterial walls, due to the uptake of oxidized low density lipoproteins (oxLDL) by macrophages, causes blood flow restriction making cardiovascular diseases (CVD) a serious public health problem in EU countries. In oxLDL, oxidation of (phospho)lipids and proteins occurs, ori ...