Open AccessTreating Arteries Instead of Risk Factors
Author(s) -
J. David Spence,
Daniel G. Hackam
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
stroke
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.397
H-Index - 319
eISSN - 1524-4628
pISSN - 0039-2499
DOI - 10.1161/strokeaha.110.577973
Subject(s) - medicine , stroke (engine) , cardiology , mechanical engineering , engineering
Until recently, atherosclerosis was thought to be inexorably progressive. Beginning in 2001 and implemented in our vascular prevention clinics by 2003, we have been treating arteries rather than risk factors. We studied the proportion of patients with plaque progression vs regression before and after this change in paradigm.
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