Your link shows a study comparing diet to placebo. In contrast, your comment talks about diet vs medication. A nuanced but important difference. To the best of

Your link shows a study comparing diet to placebo. In contrast, your comment talks about diet vs medication. A nuanced but important difference. To the best of my knowledge, diet-vs-medication has not been tested systematically in a high quality trial. Another study that you might like, and which is potentially more relevant by the point you're talking with a cardiac surgeon, is the Lyon Heart Study, which actually looks at secondary prevention: Easy to digest article: http://circ.ahajournals.org/content/103/13/1823.full http://circ.ahajournals.org/content/103/13/1823.full Original study: http://circ.ahajournals.org/content/99/6/779.full.pdf http://circ.ahajournals.org/content/99/6/779.full.pdf