Coronary artery disease remains the leading cause of death globally despite advances in managing blood pressure, smoking cessation, and lipid levels.

“if you look at the epidemiology curves of say coronary disease over the past 30 years we've done an amazing job of reducing the risk of coronary artery disease events using all the tools we have at our disposal whether that's you know blood pressure smoking sensation lipid management etc etc yet as you mentioned at the very beginning it's still the number one cause of death in the world”