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...alone: Nervous, withdrawn and chronically worried people are courting coronary problems, too, according to a new long-term study in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. Of 735 American middle-aged or elderly men who had good cardiovascular health in 1986, those who scored highest on four different scales of anxiety were far more likely to suffer heart attacks later in life. Men in the top 15% on any of the four scales, or on a combined scale of all four...
...example "that exercise, in our study, was a proxy for other, unaccounted for lifestyle habits or environmental influences," says Ravaglia. People who are regularly active are "more likely to be more careful of their health, what they eat, smoking, alcohol, and so on, reducing their general risk of cardiovascular disease and atherosclerosis," he says...
...competition seven or eight hours away into a fun family excursion.But those days are now over. “Here in Texas it seems to be a dying art,” said Liles, who makes a living as a hospital courier.And his daughter, who aspires to be a cardiovascular surgeon, is more than 1,800 miles away. He has only been to Cambridge once, to drop Lindsay off freshman year, and has never seen her perform at a Harvard football game.(NOT) THE IVY LEAGUE’S DRAWThe only other baton twirler performing with an Ivy League band...
...nearly one in five American children between the ages of 6 and 11 are overweight. Perhaps that statistic doesn’t resound as much as it should—it means that nearly one in five children today are already on track for developing type 2 diabetes, hypertension, cardiovascular disease, sleep apnea, and the whole glut of diseases and disorders associated with obesity. If America’s dire obesity epidemic is to be contained, decisive action must be taken in the interest of the public health, starting with policies that encourage children and adolescents to develop healthy habits...
...sales in pharmaceutical R. and D., or $2 billion annually. Thanks to innovations in technology and management, Novartis carries its drugs through development in only two-thirds the time it takes the average drug company. Its tightly coordinated R.-and-D. and marketing efforts focus on areas, such as cardiovascular diseases, in which treatments are judged to offer the greatest potential for profit. Senior vice president for business development Paul Sekhri, who helped pick these areas by going systematically through some 980 categories of ailments, says Vasella took a keen interest in how they were chosen. But while Vasella...