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The effect of the laws of fluid mechanics (hemodynamics) on blood vessels is the primary causative factor in the localization and progressive development of atherosclerosis rather than cholesterol levels or diet. The cholesterol-diet heart disease hypothesis is seriously flawed by statistical misinterpretation and faulty extrapolations from clinical trial studies. It should be allowed to pass into medical history.
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Texon, M. Hemodynamic Basis of Atherosclerosis with Critique of the Cholesterol-Heart Disease Hypothesis. Cardiovascular Engineering 1, 57–58 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1011543823859
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