Why is cardiac artery disease incurable if doctors can use stents and bypass as treatments?

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Why is cardiac artery disease incurable if doctors can use stents and bypass as treatments?

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A treatment is not a cure; a cure is something you do once and fixes it forever, while a treatment is something to help resolve the symptoms.

For example, cough syrup doesn’t cure a cold (the virus), but it treats the symptoms (coughing). Likewise, the stents and bypasses treat the symptoms of arterial disease by allowing bloodflow, but they don’t address the root cause of it (plaque buildup in the arteries).