ICAM1 and atherosclerosis: Moreover, they are important in the context of the studies conducted by Blankenberg et al. [48], who showed that higher levels of ICAM-1 and VCAM-1 are related to future death from cardiovascular causes, and the studies conducted by Pradhan et al. [49], who noted that elevated levels of ICAM-1 are independently associated with the development of accelerated atherosclerosis among otherwise healthy men, even in the absence of acute coronary occlusion.