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Article: Best Results: Cleveland Clinic Study Stops Progress of Heart Disease with Diet and Cholesterol Drugs.
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- August 2, 1999
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CLEVELAND, Aug. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- In the longest ongoing study of its kind, Cleveland Clinic surgeon and researcher Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D., has shown that a low-fat diet, coupled with cholesterol-lowering medication, is the single most effective way to stop progression of coronary artery disease. As detailed in an article in the August 1, 1999 issue of The American Journal of Cardiology, the heart patients in Dr. Esselstyn's trial fared significantly better and over a longer period of time than patients in similar studies.
Dr. Esselstyn attributes the success of his 12-year trial to substantially lower mean levels of both total cholesterol (145 mg/dl) ...
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