Treatment of atherosclerosis by diet. I. Results in patients followed from 36 to 72 months
Nelson, A.M.
Northwest Medicine 55(6): 643-649
1956
ISSN/ISBN: 0029-3385 PMID: 13322315 Document Number: 10266
One hundred and seventy-five patients suffering from either coronary or cerebral artery disease were treated an average of 50 months under a program of low fat diet coupled with minor auxiliary aids. They began treatment from 36 to 72 months previously. These cases are divided into three groups: successful lipid correction, unsuccessful lipid correction, and those quitting dietary therapy. Chances of invalidism or death are less than a third in those successfully treated as compared to those quitting diet, unsuccessfully corrected, or the average American mortality rate in similar cases, using the present methods of symptomatic treatment which do nothing to attack the underlying disease. It appears that the final answer to the important question as to benefit of lipid control lies in the death rate due to recurrent attacks of vascular occlusion in each succeeding year after treatment has been started. The difficult obstacles which the patient must hurdle to successfully follow this program of treatment will be described in two succeeding papers. Whether they are so difficult as to render this method of treatment impractical can only be settled by further observation and time.
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