Atherosclerosis: Reducing cholesterol, treating high blood pressure, smoking cessation, treating diabetes are the know risk factor "treatments" to hopefully slow the progression of atherosclerosis.
Answered 3/10/2013
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Avoid it!: By following healthy habits american heart you can dramatically reduce the incidence! if you develop the diseases, there are diverse and helpful treatments. But avoidance. Prevention is better!, !
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LDL Drives HDL Stops: Atherosclerosis, typically starts ~age 7, is primarily driven by lipoproteins (the proteins which transport fat in the water outside cells), not cholesterol (made by every cell), thus optimize NMR particle test (hdl & LDL concentration, not cholesterol), keep hba1c low, optional ≤5.0%, sbp ≤120 mmhg, don’t smoke, exercise, avoid dietary sugars, etc; study: nusi.Org, taubes, attia, lustig fatchance.
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