How Should We Treat Hyperlipidemia in the Primary Prevention Patient? | Biomedgrid

It is reported that Hippocrates said If someone wishes for good health, one must first ask oneself if he is ready to do away with the reasons for his illness. Only then is it possible to help him and Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food. While we may never know if Hippocrates actually made these statements, they seem intuitively valid. In the later half of the 20th Century, changes in dietary and lifestyle practices raised the awareness of the importance of diet and lifestyle and the development of chronic inflammatory diseases – entering the lexicon [1]-and the understanding that it is this inflammatory process which is ultimately responsible for the development of many of our chronic diseases, including coronary artery disease [2], which has gone on to become the number one killer of people worldwide. This case introduces one such example that should remind us to remain vigilant to what Hippocrates said.