{"id":123,"date":"2004-03-21T22:20:54","date_gmt":"2004-03-21T22:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=123"},"modified":"2004-03-21T22:20:54","modified_gmt":"2004-03-21T22:20:54","slug":"thinking_different_about_opening_arteries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=123","title":{"rendered":"Thinking different about opening arteries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sci.sdsu.edu\/class\/bio590\/pictures\/lect5\/5.2.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.google.com\/images?q=tbn:3yxpioaAVE4J:sonofsun.sdsu.edu\/class\/bio590\/pictures\/lect5\/artery-vein.jpeg\"><\/a><br \/>\nGina Kolata <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/03\/21\/health\/21HEAR.html?ex=1395205200&#038;en=f35fe502ae4bd7ea&#038;ei=5007&#038;partner=USERLAND\">writes about some different thinking<\/a> with respect to opening arteries (using stents &#038; bypass surgery) vis a vis heart attack risks:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>But the new model of heart disease shows that the vast majority of heart attacks do not originate with obstructions that narrow arteries.<br \/>\nInstead, recent and continuing studies show <b>that a more powerful way to prevent heart attacks<\/b> in patients at high risk is to adhere rigorously to what can seem like boring old advice ? giving up smoking, for example, and taking drugs to get blood pressure under control, drive cholesterol levels down and prevent blood clotting.<br \/>\nResearchers estimate that just one of those tactics, lowering cholesterol to what guidelines suggest, can reduce the risk of heart attack by a third but is followed by only 20 percent of heart patients.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gina Kolata writes about some different thinking with respect to opening arteries (using stents &#038; bypass surgery) vis a vis heart attack risks: But the new model of heart disease shows that the vast majority of heart attacks do not originate with obstructions that narrow arteries. Instead, recent and continuing studies show that a more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}