optimists who believe that in 10 years science indeed. atherosclerosis will greatly defeat, this is oleg gulaev, doctor, angiosurgeon, good evening, and nikolai dupik, cardiologist, hello, hello, i hope we will find out what angiosurgery is, very interesting, by the way, as per tradition, i have skeptics visiting alexander karasev, doctor of clinical laboratory diagnostics, alexander vladimirovich, good afternoon, and pavel yurievich orekhov, cardiovascular surgeon, good, good evening, at the end of the program our guests are optimists. will make a forecast with what probability in 10 years science will actually will defeat atherosclerosis? our expert, professor kapustin, will tell you about the history of atherosclerosis. atherosclerosis is a disorder of lipid metabolism, which leads to drying of blood vessels, reduces blood flow and leads to thrombosis with blockage of the artery. the cause of atherosclerosis is an increase in the concentration of cholesterol derivatives. atherosclerosis is the most famous. an analysis of mummies dating back thousands of years showed that the cause of death f