Mon, 20 February 2006
50+ years old? We take the test to see our chance of being alive in 4 years; income & social status impact heart rate recovery
If you are 50 years old or older, will you be alive in four years? Take the Four-Year Mortality Index for Older Adults survey as published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (February 15, 2006,
Vol 295, No 7.) with us and learn the answer to that question.
Do you know that your income and social status help determine how fast your heart rate recovers from exercise? We explain.
Speaking of exercise, if you are a runner, stay tuned. You may want to think twice about chugging a big “cup of joe? before your next marathon.
What are the top five sources of germs that can increase your risk of getting a cold or the flu? The answers may surprise you.
Dr. Cooper takes calls.
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Mon, 20 February 2006
Dr. Cooper and Jennifer Hays, Ph.D., Women's Healthy Initiative discuss study findings for women and their impact on health.
Over the past two weeks there have been major headlines in just about every newspaper and magazine in the country about calcium and vitamin D as they relate to bone health and cancer, the low-fat diet and whether or not it impacts disease, and hormone replacement therapy (HRT).
Those studies came as a result of the Women’s Healthy Initiative, otherwise known as the WHI, which studied more than 160,000 post-menopausal women over a 15-year period.
Dr. Cooper and Jennifer Hays, Ph.D., a lead WHI researcher, professor at Texas A&M College of Medicine, and with the department of Medicine at Scott & White Hospital, discuss these topics today.
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