Re: dietary fat & cardio deaths: quality not quantity

From: Paul E. Lehmann (plehmann_at_fred.net)
Date: 01/22/05 

Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 21:54:22 -0500

I am curious as to how or if one differentiates between cardiovascular
disease and lesions from age related narrowing of the arteries without
lesions.

I plead ignorance on the subject and am just trying to figure out if
narrowing of the arteries is in itself cardiovascular disease or whether
there has to be a lesion along with the narrowing in order for there to be
a diagnosis of cardiovascular disease.

I can mentally picture water pipes with calcium deposits narrowing with time
because of lime and other mineral deposits. I can also picture water pipes
with a structural defect in the pipe which may eventually fail along with
the mineral deposits.

In such a simplistic picture I can visualize the water pipes without the
structural defect in the pipes continue to cary water for quite some time
(although with a higher velocity because of the narrowing) without actually
bursting. I suppose that the higher velocity caused by the narrowing could
in itself increase the pressure in the pipe and eventually cause a
structural failure in the pipe. Is this how it works? Does anyone really
know?

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