Word: bloodedly
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...that portion of the survey, the investigators focused on people in the 25-to-74 age group and evaluated five different risk factors for cardiovascular disease: blood pressure, cholesterol, smoking history, obesity and diabetes. To be considered at low risk, subjects had to have a blood pressure reading of 120/80 mm Hg or lower without the aid of medication and a cholesterol level below 200 mg/dL, also without drugs. They had to be nonsmokers or at least former smokers, not be overweight or obese, and never have been diagnosed with diabetes. "From a prevention point of view, it's important...
...real problems are blood pressure, obesity and diabetes, all of which are relentlessly on the rise. Worse, there's a time bomb in the trend lines. According to a 2008 survey by the CDC, 32% of American children are now overweight or obese, a number that at least appears to have plateaued after a long period of steady increase but one that's shocking all the same. Once those children reach the 25-to-74 demographic, their heart-disease risk could cause the national numbers to explode. "As these children grow up, I expect to see a decrease...
...allowed enough breathing room in their schedules to let them do good cardiac assessments. Schools and workplaces, the paper argues, should also be in on the prevention game. Since both are places where large numbers of people congregate, they are also places where simple measures like blood-pressure screenings could do the most good...
Frankly, Michelle Obama is not Jackie Kennedy. She was not born into the East Coast establishment, her blood does not run blue, and her upbringing was not centered on landing a powerful husband. She has a law degree from Harvard, out-earned her husband before he ran for public office, and has children and a family she still manages to care for. If First Ladies can be said to represent anything at all—and the judges are still out on that one—then Michelle Obama would seem to represent some version of the modern American woman...
Just yesterday, investigators retrieved bloody clothes in the ceiling of the research facility yesterday, but have yet to establish a link to Le's disappearance, as she was wearing different clothes that morning. An unnamed source within the Yale Police Department said officials are currently analyzing the blood to determine its origins, as it could have been from animal blood from experiments conducted...