title: Can life-style changes reverse coronary atherosclerosis?
abstract: "It seemed to me that bypass surgery had become a metaphor for an incomplete approach to coronary heart disease: bypassing the problem without also dealing with the underlying causes.... What would happen if those causes were addressed more directly?" The author goes on to describe an intensive risk-modification regimen to arrest or even reverse progression of atherosclerosis.
authors.affiliation: University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Ornish
mesh_terms: D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D017023:Coronary Angiography; D003324:Coronary Artery Disease / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D008019:Life Style; D012074:Remission Induction; D012307:Risk Factors; D014055:Tomography, Emission-Computed