Nutritional Supplement Program Halts Progression of Early Coronary Atherosclerosis Documented by Ultrafast Computed Tomography
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According to the World-Health Organization, over 12 million people die every year from heart attacks, strokes and other forms of cardiovascular disease.1 The direct and indirect costs for treatment of cardiovascular disease are the single largest health care expense in every industrialized country of the world. Despite modest success in some countries in lowering the mortality rate from heart attacks and strokes, the cardiovascular epidemic is still expanding on a worldwide scale.
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تاریخ انتشار 2007