The old saying that a man is only as old as his arteries is quietly being disproved at the LSU School of Medicine.
A series of investigation being conducted at the school show that arteriosclerosis, the No. 1 killer in the heart-disease group, is not strictly a disease of old age caused by degeneration of the arteries.
First lesions . . . those yellow streaks found on the arteries which are the beginnings of arteriosclerosis . . . have been found in children as young as four, said Dr. Russell L. Holman, head of the department of pathology at LSU.
In scores of autopsies performed on patients who have died from various causes, more arterial lesions were found on older persons, but the lesions have been found in numbers in children over 10 years of age.
