Vitamin E Takes Center Stage in Preventive Cardiology

摘要

Both preventive cardiology and the citation league tables in medicine (papers #2 and #5) are dominated by a class of cholesterol-lowering drugs called "statins." But that is not the only way to avoid a heart attack, whether you already have some history of coronary heart disease (secondary prevention) or not (primary). Diet, non-smoking, and exercise, for example, should not be forgotten. A newcomer to the lop Ten, the Cambridge Heart Antioxidant Study (CHAOS, paper #6) tackles cholesterol and prevention from a different angle.