VEGFA and systemic sclerosis: We observed that the miR‐126 expression levels were decreased in SSc skin and SSc‐MVECs, and when miR‐126 was down‐regulated in NL‐MVECs, the cells lost the ability to mount an angiogenetic response to VEGF, while up‐regulation of miR‐126 restored the VEGF‐induced angiogenic responses in SSc.