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Diet and Coronary Heart Disease
GEORGE V. MANN, Sc.D., M.D.
AMA Arch Intern Med. 1959;104(6):921-929.
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The most pressing medical problem of the Western World is that of coronary heart disease. The past 15 years have seen a revolution in attitude toward this problem. The old pessimistic view that atherosclerosis is inevitable and immutable has given way to an optimism that atherosclerosis can be reduced to its chemical parts, can be known, and, in time, prevented. These new opinions are suspended upon a tenuous network of hypotheses that sway and tear in the face of criticism, prejudice, and windy debate. Nevertheless, the hypotheses are useful and indispensable parts of the scientific method, and they deserve careful tending. Chief among them is a belief that diet is important to the pathogenesis of atherosclerotic disease.
It would be vain to suppose that man is so ingenious that he would never devise some piece of progress which would backbite him. It is worth considering that a way of life
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Author Affiliations
Nashville, Tenn.
From the Departments of Biochemistry and Medicine and the Division of Nutrition, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tenn.; Established Investigator of the American Heart Association, Associate Professor of Biochemistry, Assistant Professor of Medicine.
Footnotes
Submitted for publication June 11, 1959.
Read in the Symposium on Basic Problems of Coronary Disease Today before the Joint Meeting of the Section on Experimental Medicine and Therapeutics and the Section on Internal Medicine at the 108th Annual Meeting of the American Medical Association, Atlantic City, June 11, 1959.
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