Heart of the Matter: Lowering Your Risk of Heart Disease
There are certain unavoidable risk factors for heart disease, like family history. But there are factors that you can modify to lower your risk of a heart attack: high cholesterol, high blood pressure, cigarette smoking, and physical inactivity. Any...
Brain Attack: Risk Factors for Stroke
The risk factors for stroke resemble those for other cardiovascular diseases, particularly high blood pressure and hypertension that can be modified by relaxation and dietary interventions. High cholesterol is also thought to be a factor although ma...
Behind Closed Doors: Risk Factors for Violence: Guns and Drugs
Guns--weapons of violence--contribute to the greater number of violent acts that occur in the United States. The cities of Seattle and Vancouver are virtually identical except for the fact that the murder rate in Seattle is ten times higher than it ...
Germ Warfare: Aggressive Microbes; Deadly Outbreaks
In recent years a strike force of deadly microbes has taken aim at the world. Because these bacteria and viruses multiply quickly, they evolve rapidly into more aggressive strains. Often a new pathogen like e coli 157 is discovered when there are si...