TY  - JOUR
T1  - EFfect of lifestyle changes on coronary heart disease—reply
AU  - Ornish D
Y1  - 1999/07/14
N1  - 10-1001/pubs.JAMA-ISSN-0098-7484-282-2-jbk0714
JO  - JAMA
SP  - 130
EP  - 132
VL  - 282
IS  - 2
N2  - 
Dr Miller points out that atherosclerosis progressed in control group
patients despite reductions in fat intake (25%) and LDL cholesterol. However,
we noted that, "Patients in the control group who were not prescribed lipid-lowering
drugs during the study showed over 3 times as much progression in percent
diameter stenosis as those who were."1 The
reason that so many cardiac events occurred in both groups is that these patients
had severe CAD. We did not find a correlation between triglyceride levels
and cardiac events; also, triglycerides were higher in the experimental group,
yet these subjects showed far fewer events. Only 3 patients smoked in the
control group, and there were no significant differences in fasting blood
sugar between groups.

SN  - 0098-7484
M3  - doi: 10-1001/pubs.JAMA-ISSN-0098-7484-282-2-jbk0714
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10-1001/pubs.JAMA-ISSN-0098-7484-282-2-jbk0714
ER  -