Reversal of Coronary Artery Disease from Lifestyle Changes
When 48 patients with moderate to severe coronary artery disease were randomized into either an intensive lifestyle change group (the changes included a 100% whole foods vegetarian diet, aerobic exercise, stress management training - imagery, meditation and yoga - and group psychosocial support.) or a usual-care control group, and both groups were studied at the 5-year follow up with coronary arteriography, the experimental group far exceeded the most optimistic expectations for improvement.
Average coronary artery stenosis (closing up) had decreased 1.75 absolute % points after 1 year (a 4.5% relative improvement); and by 3.1 percentage points by the fifth year (a whopping 7.9% relative improvement) in the lifestyle change group.
By contrast, average coronary stenosis in the control group increased by 2.3 percentage points (a 5.4% relative worsening) and by a scary 11.8 points after 5 years (a 27.7% thickening). (p = .001)
Indeed, there were a total of 28 cardiac events (that's a euphemism for heart attacks and other bad things) in the lifestyle group, as opposed to 45 in the control group, after 5 years.
This groundbreaking study shocked the medical community, which had heretofore insisted that coronary artery disease could not be reversed by non-surgical means.
It continues to change the nature of cardiac care across the U.S. and around the world.
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