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Updating a 12-year experience with arrest and reversal therapy for coronary heart disease (an overdue requiem for palliative cardiology)

Esselstyn, C. B.

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July 31, 1999

10.1016/s0002-9149(99)00290-8

PMID: 10496449

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Coronary artery disease is essentially nonexistent in cultures whose nutrition assures cholesterol levels <150 mg/dl. Patients with advanced coronary artery disease may abolish disease progression through a plant-based diet and cholesterol-lowering medication to achieve and maintain a total cholesterol

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Female; Humans; Male; Adult; Aged; Middle Aged; Triglycerides; Coronary Disease; Cholesterol; Diet, Vegetarian; Lipids; Prospective Studies; Treatment Outcome; Follow-Up Studies; Hyperlipidemias; Hypolipidemic Agents