Macrophages have been reported to be the main source of foam cells (Chistiakov et al., 2017), and our previous studies have shown that CML/CD36 accelerated AS progression by promoting the accumulation of macrophage-derived foam cells in the aorta (Xu et al., 2018). Here, CD36 is linked to chronic myelogenous leukemia, BCR-ABL1 positive.