Is the present therapy for coronary artery disease the radical mastectomy of the twenty-first century?

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 106, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 902-904

  Esselstyn Jr , Caldwell B ^a  

^a Cleveland Clinic Wellness Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ANGIOPLASTY; ATHERECTOMY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS SURGERY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; COUNSELING; DIET; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; DRUG ELUTING STENT; EDITORIAL; ENDOTHELIAL DYSFUNCTION; EXERCISE; FOOD INTAKE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE MODIFICATION; MASTECTOMY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NUTRITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; STROKE; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DIET THERAPY; DRUG COMBINATION; DRUG EFFECTS; FEMALE; HISTORY; LITERATURE; STENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM;

ADRENERGIC BETA-ANTAGONISTS; ANGIOTENSIN-CONVERTING ENZYME INHIBITORS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; ANTICOAGULANTS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; FEMALE; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL-COA REDUCTASE INHIBITORS; MASTECTOMY, RADICAL; METAPHOR; RISK FACTORS; STENTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77956309133     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2010.05.016     Document Type: Editorial

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