Tag: JoAnn E. Manson

  • Campus & Community

    Exercise cuts risk of sudden cardiac death

    Exercise improves your health, but can you kill yourself with too much snow shoveling, yard work, jogging, or playing tennis? “Despite all of the known benefits of exercise, there are also well-documented associations between acute episodes of exertion and sudden cardiac death,” notes Christine Albert, an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. “Although…

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  • Campus & Community

    HSPH joins battle over America’s waistline

    The Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) weighed in on the battle over America’s bulging middle Thursday (May 26), with a panel of health experts saying a government study showing that being somewhat overweight may actually save lives is flawed and sends a dangerous message. The event, “Weighing the Evidence: A Forum to Examine the…

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  • Campus & Community

    Simple test predicts heart attack

    White cell counts can be easily measured by inexpensive, widely available tests, raising the possibility of lowering the toll of heart disease fatalities, the leading cause of death among women in the United States. “For years, researchers have suspected a link between elevated white blood cell count and heart attack,” notes JoAnn Manson, one of…

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  • Health

    Physically active women reduce risk of stroke

    A Harvard study followed 72,488 nurses for eight years and concluded that the more a woman exercises, the lower the odds she will suffer a stroke. Two large Harvard studies of men also show that exercise reduces their chances of getting strokes. However, the more-is-better association has not yet been proven for men as it…

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