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Mrs. Gordon punched Mr. Tripoli's risk-factor numbers and other data into a software program she developed called Intimal Health.
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Such a calculation "gives a sense that your risk-factor burden is making you age faster than you think you are," says
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For the same reasons, talking about "prevention" or "risk-factor reduction" is boring to most people.
How to Transform Your Lifestyle and Your Life (Part One) 2010
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For the same reasons, talking about "prevention" or "risk-factor reduction" is boring to most people.
Dr. Dean Ornish: How to Transform Your Lifestyle and Your Life (Part One) 2010
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While it is crucial to remind us of the significant health impact of risk-factor modification, who today is really not aware that smoking, obesity, and a sedentary lifestyle are inimical to one's health?
Lifestyle Is Fine, but Cancer Needs Effective Treatment 2009
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When people eat more healthfully, exercise, quit smoking, manage stress better, and love more, they find that they feel so much better, so quickly, it reframes the reason for making these changes from fear of dying (too scary) or risk-factor modification (too boring) to joy of living.
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When people eat more healthfully, exercise, quit smoking, manage stress better, and love more, they find that they feel so much better, so quickly, it reframes the reason for making these changes from fear of dying (too scary) or risk-factor modification (too boring) to joy of living.
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MUHC-led research identifies risk-factor genes for type 2 diabetes
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Drawing on data from the nation's largest risk-factor survey, he showed that surgical removal of the uterus (the site of menstrual bleeding) causes an increase in heart-attack risk even if the ovaries are left to produce estrogen.
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A clinical trial is ultimately a test of strategy,and we should not be surprised that different strategies may have different effects on patients beyond their effect of risk-factor levels.
Let us shift the risk factor paradigm-it is about time james gaulte 2008
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