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Brief
Summary of Below (Cardiac Disease)
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More recently, a small, but significant clinical
trial by Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn Jr., of the Cleveland Clinic
Foundation, showed that a plant-based diet in conjunction with
cholesterol-reducing medication eliminated progression of coronary
artery disease over a 12-year period in patients with triple-vessel
disease. Most of the 18 patients had experienced an earlier failed
intervention of bypass surgery or angioplasty. All patients who
maintained the diet achieved the cholesterol goal of less than 150
mg/dL and had no recurrent coronary events during the 12 years. At five
years, angiography was repeated in most cases. By analysis of the
stenosis percentage, none
had any progression of the disease and 70 percent had selective
regression. This data is compelling when one considers that the same
group had experienced more than 49 coronary events during the eight
years before this study.
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