Can atherosclerosis be prevented, treated or cured?

Other options like taking aspirin or warfarin to prevent clotting, diuretics or ACE inhibitors to reduce blood pressure, or stent placement to keep the blood vessel open don't reduce the load of atherosclerotic plaques but they do help to prevent the consequences of atherosclerosis from occurring (the consequences being plaque rupture into the blood vessel lumen, blocking the artery and starving any cardiac tissue downstream of the blocked vessel). read more

Dr. Grenzer responded: No. Medications and life style changes can prevent it from progressing and at times cause some regression, but will not cure it. read more