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...researchers, led by Thomas Gaziano at Harvard Medical School and Brigham & Women's Hospital in Boston, trawled through data on 6,186 American adults participating in the U.S. National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. Participants were initially examined in the early 1970s and had no prior history of cardiovascular disease; they were tracked for 21 years, during which time 1,529 of the participants suffered cardiovascular events (such as heart attacks, stroke, angina or heart failure), including 578 deaths due to heart disease...
...taking estrogen and progestin, comes to three extra cases per 1000 women per year. For breast cancer, the study found one extra case per 1000 women per year. "It's helpful to translate the findings into absolute cases," notes Dr. JoAnn Manson, chief of preventive medicine at Harvard's Brigham and Women's Hospital. "So for women who are having distressing menopausal symptoms, who are not sleeping, they are going to get quality of life benefits and it's important for them to understand what the absolute risks...
...middle-aged women who regularly drank low-fat milk have a significantly lower chance of having hypertension risks than women who didn’t drink milk on a daily basis. JoAnn E. Manson ’75, a Medical School professor and the chair of preventive medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, said that she and her colleagues started working on the study in 1992 with the hope of understanding the role of diet and other factors in health problems such as cardiovascular diseases. “High blood pressure is a highly prevalent health problem...
...March, after years of review, Harvard plans to spin-off HMI’s health-care consulting functions to Partners HealthCare, the Massachusetts health-care delivery group that operates two prominent Harvard-affiliated hospitals—Brigham and Women’s and Mass. General...
...schools across the University. University and Medical School spokesmen declined to comment on the details of the agreement, saying negotiations were still ongoing. Partners HealthCare did not return requests for comment over the weekend. Partners, which was founded in 1994 by two Medical School-affiliated hospitals, Massachusetts General and Brigham and Women’s, recorded revenue of over $422 million in the year ending September 2005. News of the agreement came near the end of a lengthy review process examining HMI’s activities in over 30 countries and across five continents. HMI, also founded in 1994, brought...