Tag Archives: Coronary Heart Disease
Today is National Walking Day: Wednesday, April 4th
Today, thousands of people across the United States are taking a stand for their health by participating in National Walking Day.
Will you join us? All you need to do to participate in the movement is ditch your desk and take a 30 minute walk.
There are countless physical activities out there, but walking has the lowest dropout rate [...]
Cardiovascular Risk Factor Reduction: Where Are We Going?
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Ever since the first identification and coining of the phrase “risk factors for coronary heart disease (CHD)” by the Framingham Investigators in 1959 [1,2], there has been an explosion of literature that has come under the heading of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factor reduction, as if creating a separate subspecialty of cardiology. There [...]