Is it time to move from treating risk factors of the disease to treating the disease?

Amir Ahmadi^{1

2}, Jonathon Leipsic¹

Affiliations

¹ St Paul's Hospital & University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
² Icahn school of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, NY, USA.

Comment

Amir Ahmadi et al. Eur Heart J. 2018.

. 2018 Jul 1;39(25):2409-2411.

doi: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehy343.

Amir Ahmadi^{1

2}, Jonathon Leipsic¹

¹ St Paul's Hospital & University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
² Icahn school of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, NY, USA.

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