The role of diet and exercise in the statin era.
Prog Cardiovasc Dis
; 41(2): 137-50, 1998.
Article
in En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-9790414
ABSTRACT
Coronary atherosclerosis begins to develop in late adolescence and early adulthood. If intervention in coronary risk factors is delayed until middle-age, it is likely that a considerable number of patients will be lost to irreversible disease. Even with the dramatic cholesterol lowering that can be induced by statin drugs, coronary events can be reduced by only 25% to 40%, leaving most at-risk patients unprotected. Diet, exercise, and other nonpharmacological interventions have a role in the age of statins, not only to augment the effects of these drugs in high-risk patients, but also, by preventing atherogenesis in the first place, to reduce the number of at-risk patients.
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Coronary Artery Disease
/
Lovastatin
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Diet Therapy
/
Exercise Therapy
Type of study:
Risk_factors_studies
Limits:
Humans
Language:
En
Journal:
Prog Cardiovasc Dis
Year:
1998
Document type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Estados Unidos