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Dr. Dariush Mozaffarian is a cardiologist at Harvard Medical School. In 2008 he published an article in the journal Circulation entitled “Beyond Established and Novel Risk Factors: Lifestyle Risk Factors for Cardiovascular Disease.”  This week on Fitness Rocks I review a study from the Journal of the American Medical Association about the relationship between sleep duration and the risk of coronary artery calcification. Are you getting enough sleep? This week the JUPITER study was published in the New England Journal of Medicine. It is being haled in the lay press as a study that may fundamentally change how we approach the prevention of heart disease. It could result in millions of additional people being prescribed cholesterol-lowering drugs. Is it good science or good marketing? This week I talk to Dr. Rachel Wildman about her recent article in the Archives of Internal Medicine reporting the research work of her and her colleagues into the relationship between obesity and cardiometabolic risk factors. Some normal-weight people have a lot of cardiometabolic risk factors and some obese people don’t have a lot of cardiometabolic risk factors. One of the things that stands out in her research is the role of exercise. |
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