November 28, 2017
Sebastian Cardiologist Featured in Vero News for Heart Attack Research
Clinical trial yields tantalizing heart and cancer clues
Dr. Jose Rivera, a cardiologist with the Steward Health Group and the Sebastian River Medical Center, is finally getting some high-powered validation for his long-held view that reducing inflammation – not just cholesterol levels – can prevent heart attacks.
As Time Magazine reports, “In a new paper published in the New England Journal of Medicine and presented at the European Society of Cardiology meeting, scientists say they now have proof that lowering inflammation alone, without affecting cholesterol, reduces the risk of a heart attack.”