Finally, our findings are consistent with the recent work of Reynolds and collaborators who performed transcriptomic profiling in CD14+ monocytes in participants of the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (ages 55–94 years-old) and found both reduced gene expression for genes coding for mitochondrial proteins, in particular proteins related to oxidative phosphorylation, and also significant dysregulation of transcripts coding for proteins related to autophagy [49]. Here, CD14 is linked to atherosclerosis.