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The Effect of Lifestyle Changes on Arteries
The risk of that plaque causing an acute coronary event is primarily of rupturing, causing a clot to form. The more plaque you have, the more likely you're going to have an event. By doing appropriate lifestyle changes and intervention with medication we can actually convert these dark plaques into gray plaques and the gray plaques into white plaques. And so we can stabilize and transform their atherosclerosis over time,. You can substantially reduce the chances of them having an event by changing the plaque phenotype.