Can you reverse the progression of coronary heart disease? Yes. Healthy lifestyle changes can halt plaque build-up in the arteries. They can also lower risk of type 2 diabetes and hypertension, and help shed excess weight. Plaque build-up in our arteries usually happens over many years.
The Descendants of Cosimo deâ Medici. Lorenzo was a poet himself, and supported the work of such Renaissance masters as Botticelli, Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo (whom the Medicis commissioned to complete their family tombs in Florence).
Medici family, French MÃ©dicis, Italian bourgeois family that ruled Florence and, later, Tuscany, during most of the period from 1434 to 1737, except for two brief intervals (from 1494 to 1512 and from 1527 to 1530).