Why cardiovascular medicine should focus on patients, not environmental advocacy

The treatment of cardiovascular diseases has advanced at an extraordinary pace over the past half-century resulting in an age-adjusted 60 percent reduction in heart disease death rates. This dramatic decline is directly attributable to primary and secondary preventive therapies such as statins and small interfering messenger RNAs along with disruptive technologic advances in procedural techniques.

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