Exercise has been shown to diminish the activity and expression of METTL14 in the thoracic aorta of atherosclerotic mice, thereby inhibiting METTL14-mediated m6A modification on NEAT1 mRNA, which suppresses the expression of NEAT1, and consequently inhibits pyroptosis in ECs to alleviate atherosclerosis (Yang et al., 2023). Here, NEAT1 is linked to atherosclerosis.