JoAnn Manson

JoAnn Manson
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The perception that these hormones protect the heart was so strong that many doctors were prescribing it to prevent heart disease.
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I think it's not very common to be truly physically fit and obese, though it is theoretically possible,
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If you don't eliminate the bias caused by smoking, it will artificially inflate the risk of dying among the lean and underestimate the risk of dying in the overweight,
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It's not that being underweight causes disease, but that these chronic diseases can cause weight loss, ... It's called reverse causation.
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It would be really unfortunate if we became more complacent about obesity in blacks than in whites,
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These results do not suggest that people have carte blanche to eat fatty foods without health problems.
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We're not suggesting at this point that women use estrogen for the express purpose of preventing cardiovascular disease. But this does suggest that more research is needed on younger women and recently menopausal women to explore this question. There may be a window of opportunity when women will have some heart protection from estrogen.
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We have not even begun to see the consequences of the epidemic we're seeing in children and adolescents and continuing for a lifetime. This is an alarming trend. It really should serve as a wake-up call that major societal changes are needed to address this epidemic.