R ecent evidence that regression of atherosclerosis can be achieved has provided more
impetus for reduction of blood cholesterol levels in people with coronary artery disease …

Atherosclerosis control should combine diet therapy with drugs as needed. Mortality from
coronary heart disease can be reduced and there is evidence that this is due to …

T he word" atherosclerosis" derives from two Greek terms: athere, porridge, and sklerosis, a
hardening. The atherosclerotic lesion's porridge-like part-mainly accumulated lipid-is most …

Experimental studies have shown the regression of atherosclerosis in animals given a
cholesterol-rich diet and then given a normal diet or hypolipidemic therapy. Despite …

Drugs, surgery, and possibly changes in smoking behavior can apparently induce a
measurable regression of atherosclerosis and other lesions associated with the onset of …

IN the 1979 Lewis A. Connor Memorial Lecture, Richard S. Ross presented a list of the 10
most impor-tant developments in the past 30 years in cardiopul-monary research. The list …

JAMES SHEPHERD, CHRISTOPHER J PACKARD From the Department of Biochemistry,
Royal Infirmary, Glasgow 1984 was a good year. Contrary to orwellian predictions of doom it …

The evidence for atherosclerosis regression and the principal results and clinical
implications of angiographic trials employing lipid-lowering therapy is reviewed under the …

In animals in which atherosclerosis was induced experimentally (by a high cholesterol diet)
regression of the atherosclerotic lesion was demonstrated after serum cholesterol was …

The study of therapeutic interventions to bring about the regression of atherosclerosis has
been a major part of atherosclerosis research. Until recently, however, this objective had …