Atherosclerosis is the number one killer and can be prevented by managing blood pressure, not smoking, and controlling apob-bearing lipoproteins.

“as long as we're at this number one on the list AR sclerosis being the number one killer what are the major ways to to prevent it yeah so there's three big ones that stand out you know top and center and then there's kind of a fourth one that I think is the the foundational piece so the three big ones we've talked about one blood pressure so if your blood pressure is 120 over 80 or better that's important the second is not smoking so it turns out that smoking and blood pressure are both devastating for arteries”