“…Atherosclerosis represents an unexpected outcome in a species where this cardiovascular disease only develops in genetically predisposed strains under severe atherogenic dietary regimens (von Scheidt et al., 2017). Current and previous data point to hyperglycemia, insulin resistance, lipotoxicity, chronic low grade inflammation, dyslipidemia, and increased catecholamines and glucocorticoids as likely contributors to the development of early‐stage atherosclerosis in subordinate mice (Bartolomucci, 2007; Du et al., 2016; Heidt et al., 2014; Najafi et al., 2013; Razzoli, Karsten, Yoder, Bartolomucci & Engeland, 2014; Sanghez et al., 2013, 2016).…”