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Activists counter that there is plenty of data to support intervention, including clear evidence of incipient heart disease in youngsters. Autopsies of children killed in accidents, for example, have revealed fatty fibrous ) plaques clogging the coronary arteries of 15-year-olds and fatty deposits along the aortic walls of children as young as two or three. "We see a strong correlation between cholesterol and these lesions," says Dr. Gerald Berenson, director of the landmark Bogalusa Heart Study that monitored 12,000 children for 18 years. Moreover, youngsters in the U.S. have much higher cholesterol levels than do children in countries...
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...begin to form when he is still an adolescent, smooth fatty streaks on the interior wall of a major coronary artery -- the ominous consequence of a typically American high-cholesterol, high-fat diet. By his 20s, the streaks have formed plaques, growths with a fatty center covered by a fibrous cap of smooth muscle cells. By his 40s, the plaque, its buildup accelerated by smoking and high blood pressure, has protruded well into the bloodstream, closing 65% of the arterial passage. The blood swirls and eddies dangerously as it forces its way past the swelling obstructions...
...been called the secret disease because the progression is slow, steady and silent. Gradually, over a period of many years, atherosclerosis chokes off the flow of life-sustaining blood. The disease, resulting from the buildup of fibrous material, or plaque, in the arteries, has been killing people for centuries. Scientists have found plaque in the arteries of an Egyptian mummy dating from approximately 100 B.C. Leonardo da Vinci described atherosclerosis in his Dell'Anatomia, identifying it as the cause of a "slow death without any fever" that afflicts the elderly. It was not until this century that scientists began...
...writes. "At the conclusion of all our studies we must try once again to experience the human soul as soul, and not just as a buzz of bioelectricity: the human will as will, and not just as a surge of hormones: the human heart not as a fibrous, sticky pump, but as the metaphoric organ of understanding...