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Your Birth Month May Affect Your Health

| June 9, 2015 Comment

Your Birth Month May Affect Your Health – The month you were born may now help doctors identify what diseases you might be at risk for. Columbia University researchers, led by Nicholas Tatonetti, PhD, an assistant professor of biomedical informatics at Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) and Columbia’s Data Science Institute, came up with a […]

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Take Your Pulse to Reduce Your Stroke Risk

| July 26, 2014 Comment

Take your pulse to reduce your stroke risk, researchers suggest. Atrial fibrillation or irregular heartbeat is a major cause of stroke, particularly in those who’ve already had a stroke. Doctors monitor heartbeat in stroke victims by hooking them up to an electrocardiogram machine or having them wear a monitoring device. But researchers have discovered that […]

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Too Much Exercise Bad for Your Heart

| May 19, 2014 Comment

New research shows that too much exercise can be bad for your heart. Researchers in Sweden tracked the exercise patterns and their heart health of 44,000 men aged 45 to 79 for twelve years. They found that men who had exercised vigorously for more than 5 hours at age 30, were 19% more likely to […]

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