The path from chronic inflammation to chronic heart disease

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Setting out on a path usually infers conscious choice of the direction we are about to take. The path to chronicity, to a situation that becomes sustained over time and leads to pathology is not one that we undertake knowingly. Wittingly or unwittingly the stresses of life, from early childhood through late adulthood are cumulative. Lifestyle, diet, patterns of behavior are formed early on, within our nuclear home, and carry forward as traditions, rituals, or habits. Often, they are not…