“…Besides the well‐known risk factors such as smoking, hypercholesterolemia, hypertension, and diabetes, shear stress also plays an important role in the onset and development of AS (da Silva et al, 2019). The shear stress can induce dramatic changes in signaling and gene expression in endothelial cells (ECs), which in turn, modulate cell death, migration, growth, and proliferation (Sakamoto, Ueki, Oi, Kiuchi, & Sato, 2018). The value of physiological shear stress ranges from 5 to 12 dynes/cm 2 , while a value <5 dynes/cm 2 is considered to be low shear stress and thought to be pro‐AS shear stress (Zarins et al, 1983).…”