Cardiac valve inflammation by percent RAM 11 area staining of macrophage content
| Treatment group | Aortic (% area) | Mitral (% area) | Pulmonary (% area) | Tricuspid (% area) |
| Gp I: Atherosclerotic (n=5) | 29.0 | 35.8 | 28.1 | 7.3 |
| Gp II: Simvastatin+Ezetimibe (n=8*) | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Gp IV: Normal Control (n=12) | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| P value | 0.002 | 0.02 | 0.002 | 0.002 |
*In Gp II, not all valves were available for RAM11, two were used to measure cholesterol content.