general, at one of the first meetings of the moscow society of therapists at that time, samples and strozhensk reported the described case of myocardial infarction and the connection between the development of a heart attack and... was reported , which formulated the beginning of the postulate of the cholesterol theory of the development of atherosclerosis. oleg georgievich, when people actually encountered directly atherosclerosis, and how did they try to treat it? well , as my colleague already said, the first person to introduce atherosclerosis was felix marchand in 904, who, upon opening a large material in the lumen of a vessel, discovered a lipid stain that caused it. the lumen of the vessel and thereby caused myocardial infarction, then they already began to think about how to treat, but in those days they did not know and did not exist, science was not so developed, the first thing that came to mind was bloodletting, that is, when a person blood pressure increased, bloodletting was done, thereby lowering blood pressure and improving the patient’s condition, these were the first ones