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...study tracked 2,153 participants, average age 73, as part of the ongoing Northern Manhattan Study on stroke, led by Columbia University researchers. The participants were tracked for about two years - none had had a stroke when the study began - and their daytime drowsiness was assessed using a standard sleepiness scale. Of the group, 44% were never-dozers, 47% were sometimes-dozers and 9% were always-dozers. During the follow-up period, the group had 40 strokes and 127 other vascular events, such as heart attack. The data showed not only an increase in stroke risk with excessive daytime sleepiness...
...sleep. In one study involving patients with severe sleep apnea (five or more episodes of apnea per hour), researchers found it was "significantly related to a two-fold increased risk of a stroke," says Bernadette Boden-Albala, lead author of the current study and assistant professor of neurology at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons...
...Harvard is not the only college to benefit from Riverton’s brainchild. Harvardwood has held joint events and programs with other universities, and has even contributed to the start of similar groups at Brown, Columbia, and the University of Virginia...
...Baxter Churchville ’88 was inspired by Harvardwood to create Columbia University Entertainment in 2007, a similar network at his graduate film school. “I was frustrated that there wasn’t that opportunity to connect with alumni from Columbia,” says Churchville. “When our group first met, someone said Harvardwood is the gold standard, and I think that’s very accurate...
...Both Baumann and Unger play basketball and baseball for their respective universities, and both are pitchers. The two went head-to-head in an April 1, 2007 game in which Baumann’s complete game gave Columbia a 5-1 win…junior guard Drew Housman poured in 25 gritty points against the Lions, many of them coming on tough drives to the lane and pretty finishes over Columbia’s forwards…Columbia’s wins over Dartmouth and Harvard on Friday and Saturday gave the Lions their first back-to-back weekend sweeps...