Understanding and Preventing Cardiovascular Disease | Prakriti Gaba MD
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The Effects of Smoking and Smoking on Cardiovascular Disease
We aim to stabilize the plaque and make it instead of totally clean as hard or as stable as possible. Instead of having plaques that are high in lipids and very unstable, we want plaques that will never rupture no matter what stress comes around in the body. So right now you aren't getting clean pipes, you're getting more calcified pipes, but those calcified pipes aren't going to cause problems. The tolerability of these statins is very high and the benefits really outweigh the risks for statin medication.
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