Five years ago I wrote in this column, “Former President Clinton has joined 400,000 Americans who required coronary bypass surgery in the last year”. Clinton had high blood cholesterol and took cholesterol-lowering drugs (CLDs). But in spite of these drugs, along with superb medical care, they failed to prevent a blocked artery. Again, recently, the insertion of two stents (tiny structures like scaffolding) were required to reopen one coronary artery after he experienced chest pain.
