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"About three quarters of the population of the USA older than 30 years has some lesion related to atherosclerosis in the arterial tree. This lesion gets worse almost every day in all these people and will eventually result in closure of a vital artery in half of them, causing their death."William P. Castelli, M.D. Director, Framingham Heart Study