A recent Washington Post article called for earlier detection of atherosclerosis and a shift from “ischemia-centric” thinking to an “atheroma-centric” model. That’s progress, but it’s still missing the most important piece: Plaque isn’t the root cause. For 50 years, we’ve built a trillion-dollar cardiology machine around the cholesterol hypothesis. Statins, PCSK9 inhibitors, ezetimibe, inclisiran, Lp(a)
Rethinking cholesterol and atherosclerosis originally appeared in KevinMD.com.
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