{"title":"A Revolution in Medicine and Surgery Has Begun","authors":"Reynold Spector MD (Retired)","doi":"10.1016/j.amjmed.2025.02.012","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In the last few years, the longevity of Americans has fallen for the first time in our history. Obesity has mushroomed, heart disease still kills approximately 600,000 Americans, and stroke 150,000. This review will cover the 8 most important nongenetic risk factors for heart disease and stroke. Meanwhile, recent research has clarified the root cause of atherosclerosis. The approval of tirzepatide to treat obesity in November 2023 by the FDA turns out to have enormous implications for medicine and surgery and the food industry.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50807,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Medicine","volume":"138 6","pages":"Pages 946-949"},"PeriodicalIF":5.3000,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"American Journal of Medicine","FirstCategoryId":"3","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0002934325000890","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"2025/2/15 0:00:00","PubModel":"Epub","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"MEDICINE, GENERAL & INTERNAL","Score":null,"Total":0}
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In the last few years, the longevity of Americans has fallen for the first time in our history. Obesity has mushroomed, heart disease still kills approximately 600,000 Americans, and stroke 150,000. This review will cover the 8 most important nongenetic risk factors for heart disease and stroke. Meanwhile, recent research has clarified the root cause of atherosclerosis. The approval of tirzepatide to treat obesity in November 2023 by the FDA turns out to have enormous implications for medicine and surgery and the food industry.
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The American Journal of Medicine - "The Green Journal" - publishes original clinical research of interest to physicians in internal medicine, both in academia and community-based practice. AJM is the official journal of the Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine, a prestigious group comprising internal medicine department chairs at more than 125 medical schools across the U.S. Each issue carries useful reviews as well as seminal articles of immediate interest to the practicing physician, including peer-reviewed, original scientific studies that have direct clinical significance and position papers on health care issues, medical education, and public policy.
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