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Chronic inflammation also fascinates scientists because it indicates that our bodies may have, from an evolutionary perspective, become victims of their own success. "We evolved as a species because of our ability to fight off microbial invaders," says Dr. Peter Libby, chief of cardiovascular medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. "The strategies our bodies used for survival were important in a time when we didn't have processing plants to purify our water, when we didn't have sewers to protect...
...suddenly talking to one another - and they're discovering that they're looking at the same thing. The speed with which researchers are jumping on the inflammation bandwagon is breathtaking. Just a few years ago, "nobody was interested in this stuff," says Dr. Paul Ridker, a cardiologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital who has done some of the groundbreaking work in the area. "Now the whole field of inflammation research is about to explode...
Marasco and Sui led a team including researchers from Dana-Farber, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and Children’s Hospital Boston...
Associate Professor of Nutrition and Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health Frank B. Hu and Chief of Preventive Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital Jo Ann Manson led a team of researchers investigating 120,000 participants for 12 to 18 years...
About 42,000 men and 84,000 women who were free of diabetes, cancer and cardiovascular disease were chosen from the ongoing Health Professionals Follow-up Study (HPFS) and the Brigham and Women’s Hospital-based Nurses’ Health Study, according...