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...blueline, four players will return, including co-captain Jillian Giardina who has not missed a game since joining the team her freshman year. Lindsey Neilson will accompany Giardina on defense. Neilson was named to the 2001 ECAC D-III All-Rookie team last year...
...briskly for 30 min. four times a week. If you have diabetes, high-blood pressure or high cholesterol, get treated. Talk to your doctor about whether you should take an aspirin a day. "These things are so simple that people don't take them seriously," says Dr. Elsa-Grace Giardina, a cardiologist at the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York City. Sometimes the obvious remedies are still the best...
Some of the reluctance to administer these procedures involves age; women heart patients are generally much older than their male counterparts. "She has it when she is 65," says Giardina. "He has it when he's 40. She has more diabetes, more hypertension, and she's probably taking more drugs. She's not as clean a picture as the 40-year...
These factors often give cardiologists pause. Should they intervene aggressively when the risks are greater? Bypass surgery, for example, is twice as likely to cause death in women as in men. But "with the 40-year-old man," says Giardina, "there is no question. Gotta...
...hubbub about estrogen, its workings are still somewhat mysterious. "We attribute the rise in heart disease to menopause, in which the estrogen supply is diminished," says Columbia's Giardina. "Yet we really don't know how estrogen works." The hormone is known to promote higher levels of HDL, the "good cholesterol" that helps keep arteries clear. Yet estrogen increases HDL by only 10% or 15%, and Giardina suspects that is not enough to account for the dramatic difference in heart disease rates between men and premenopausal women...