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Epic card · Science
Atherosclerosis, an Epic card
Atherosclerosis is a pattern of the disease arteriosclerosis, characterized by the development of atheromatous plaques in the walls of arteries.
- Rarity
- Epic
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 86
- DEF
- 95
- Power
- 181
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 870,000
Ranked #581 of the 2,999 cards of the base set by power (ATK + DEF).
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- This is a chronic inflammatory disease involving many different cell types and is driven by elevated blood levels of cholesterol, primarily LDL.
- These lesions lead to narrowing of the arteries.
- At the onset, there are usually no symptoms, but if they develop, symptoms generally begin around middle age.
Why it is Epic
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Atherosclerosis article was read about 870,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 86 and blocks with 95: each hit it takes is cut by 38 %.
How to get Atherosclerosis
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Atherosclerosis (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : BruceBlaus . When using this image in external sources it can be cited as: Blausen.com sta, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
