«
Most of the studies in this
area have focused on the heart and the coronary arteries; no one has really looked at
other parts
of the vascular system, in particular the carotid arteries,» says Jonathan D. Newman, MD, MPH a cardiologist at NYU Langone Medical Center in the Department
of Medicine, Leon H. Charney Division
of Cardiology and the study's lead author.
In an
area that is not just home to more species
of plants than
most other regions on earth, but is equally rich in cultural diversity, the number
of plants used for
medicines in different ways by different people is mind boggling.