Heart disease was the #1 killer in the 1950's. It still is today. Danger! Danger! No real solutions though.
In fact they do their best to cover up solutions. Maintain a lo fat/lo salt diet. Take statins to reduce cholesterol. They should be a laughing stock.
I had an aortic dissection that I lived through. Thanks to being close to a top notch heart institute.
No thanks to the antibiotic I was taking that caused it. Of course, correlation is not causation. It hasn't been proven that the antibiotic caused it. Nor are pharmaceutical companies interested in proving it. Usually, the patient dies anyway and no correlation is even made let alone causation.
The first time I took this antibiotic I developed nerve damage and have a permanent peripheral neuropathy in my hands and feet. No one told me it was the antibiotic that caused it. It has been proven to damage tendons and nerves as a side-effect. So I took it a second time. I guess it is "caveat emptor" when it comes to prescription drugs. Of course, "informed consent" is not prime in a hospital's administration of drugs - no time for that. Anybody want to read through the sixteen pages of small print talking about side-effects and cautions that somehow releases big pharma from any responsibility for adverse events? Just trust your doctor, right?
My doctor wonders why I am not particularly interested in taking drugs. I had to keep my blood pressure down after my operation so that the surgery could heal. Now that it has healed they still want me on blood pressure medication. From what I understand my blood pressure will always be at least in the pre-hypertension area due to scar tissue but that's not acceptable, even though the medication doesn't lower it much below that. Take the meds stay on a lo fat lo sodium diet and all will be well. Old school technology from the fifties.
Of course, I don't offer this as medical advice to anyone. It is just my experience.