Burrill Bernard Crohn was born in June 13th, 1884, in the city of New York. From a family of jewish emigrants from Europe, Theodore and Leah Crohn had 12 children, educated as Jewish orthodoxy, still spread over the generations5. In New York, he attended City College (Class of 1902) where his interest for the medical career was born. According to his own biography, he decided to follow the medi...

HomeStroke: Vascular and Interventional NeurologyAhead of PrintSVIN 2021 Annual Meeting Late‐Breaking Abstracts Open AccessAbstractPDF/EPUBAboutView PDFView EPUBSections ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload citationsTrack citations ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InMendeleyReddit Jump toOpen AccessAbstractPDF/EPUBSVIN Originally published31 Jan 2023https://doi.org/10.1161/SVIN.01.suppl_1.000254Stro...

Starting in the 1940s pioneering American physiologist Ancel Keys helped establish the epidemiological link between cholesterol and cardiovascular disease. Once Keys and others clarified the role of dietary saturated fat in disease development, early intervention studies examined the effects of diet and drug therapy. In the 1990s large trials of statins confirmed the benefits of lipid-lowering ...