Topic: Brigham And Women'S Hospital

Smart Ways to Protect Your Ticker

Prevention - 457 days ago
Investigators suspect that declining estrogen may affect blood vessel walls, but research is still under way, says JoAnn Manson, MD, DrPH, chief of preventive medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. Get your BP and cholesterol checked, and try natural strategies ...

The Weighty Problem

Reader's Digest - 1141 days ago
Need a little motivation to drop those extra pounds? And a study from Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard University shows that losing weight, especially after menopause, may cut that risk. Those who gained 22 pounds or more after menopause were 18% ...