Authia Gray

• Yale University

Background Infections can lead to sepsis, a life-threatening reaction in which a dysregulated host response to the infection leads to organ dysfunction. Infectious syndromes can be either infectious underlying causes of death, or intermediate causes of death leading to sepsis. Therefore, infections participate in the cause-of-death chain of communi...

Arterial tortuosity manifests in many conditions, including hypertension, genetic mutations predisposing to thoracic aortopathy, and vascular aging. Despite evidence that tortuosity disrupts efficient blood flow and that it may be an important clinical biomarker, underlying mechanisms remain poorly understood but are widely appreciated to be largel...