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...exercise, consistency is more important than intensity, and that's the major health message of walking over running," says Cardiologist James Rippe, director of the exercise physiology laboratory at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Aerobic walking ranges from striding along to race walking, but all forms share the same goal: to give the body maximum propulsion while firming up thighs, hips and bottoms. Coaches like Howard Jacobson, 56, who heads the Walkers Club of America, teach tyro trudgers the race-walking technique. The heel of the front foot must touch the ground before the toe of the back foot...
Although silent ischemia was identified nearly two decades ago, the attention it received at last week's annual scientific meeting of the American Heart Association in Dallas reflected a growing awareness that it is a formidable medical problem. Says Cardiologist William Shell, of the University of California, Los Angeles: "It may be silent, but it can be deadly...
...study presented in Dallas by researchers from the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions appears to bear him out. The Hopkins team, led by Cardiologist Sidney Gottlieb, examined 103 heartattack patients who seemed to be recovering without complications or pain and found that 30 were having ischemic episodes. One year later nine (30%) of these people had died from heart attacks. Of the 73 without silent ischemia, only eight (11%) had suffered fatal heart attacks. "If you have had a heart attack and you have ischemia," Gottlieb concluded, "you may have a three times greater risk of dying...
Some of that evidence has been provided by Cardiologist Jeffrey Isner of the New England Medical Center in Boston, who suspects that heart damage from cocaine occurs more often than most specialists believe, partly because doctors seldom ask heart patients if they have used drugs. "There are still superb cardiologists," says Isner, "who are surprised to find out that cocaine can cause a lethal cardiac event." In a paper published last October in Circulation, the journal of the American Heart Association, Isner reported on seven people, ages 20 to 37, who used cocaine shortly before suffering apparent heart attacks...
...professor since Casey Stengel, baseball last week persuaded the president of Yale University, A. Bartlett ("Hit them where they aren't") Giamatti, to jump to the National League. As the commissioner of baseball is a reformed travel agent, and the president of the American League is a retired cardiologist, the choice of an English teacher to replace Chub Feeney made a surprising kind of sense, though Chub has never hurried away from a press conference to deliver a lecture on Machiavelli...