Can dietary changes rapidly decrease cardiovascular mortality rates?
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Can dietary changes rapidly decrease cardiovascular mortality rates?
Most heart attacks and ischaemic strokes are caused by complicated atheroma, usually compounded by thrombosis suddenly reducing blood flow in a critical artery. Extensive evidence suggests that this atheroma silently builds up over decades. Thus, early atheroma streaks were seen in classical autopsy studies on Korean war casualties and teenage traffic fatalities. Hence, the emerging paradigm de...
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عنوان ژورنال: European Heart Journal
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0195-668X,1522-9645
DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehr049