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Sources: National League of Cities, AdAge.com Mercer Human Resource Consulting, Wall Street Journal, JAMA...
Sources: New York Times (2); JAMA; Wall Street Journal; McDonald...
...likely to suffer a heart attack. For them, even a modest decrease in cardiac risk can pay big dividends. Moreover, some people have a genetic mutation that reduces levels of a homocysteine-eating enzyme. A second meta-analysis, out of the Netherlands and also reported in last week's JAMA, shows that the mutation raises heart-disease rates 16%--and thus makes the impact of homocysteine reduction correspondingly greater...
...bottom line, says Dr. Peter Wilson, of the Boston University School of Medicine, who wrote an editorial accompanying the two JAMA articles: "If you're already at high risk for heart disease, having your homocysteine levels tested is probably appropriate. If you're in good health, there's no point." Taking a multivitamin with 400 micrograms of folic acid certainly won't hurt. An even better idea, as always, is to eat plenty of leafy green vegetables, since they're high in the sorts of natural compounds that not only protect your heart but also may reduce your cancer risk...
...JAMA article itself acknowledges such a possibility, although it does not refer to prostitution in particular...