To Understand Heart Disease, You Need To Understand This.
There is a big difference between the risk factors for heart disease and the disease itself.
Heart disease does not kill people.
Heart attacks do.
Appreciating this distinction is critical to understanding heart disease.
Heart disease is the presence of plaque or atherosclerosis in the coronary arteries.
(Heart disease can, of course, refer to many other heart-related conditions, but in general, the terms heart disease and coronary artery disea…
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