Exercising with weights is a "safe and effective" way to develop strength in people over 65, and can help them maintain an independent lifestyle, writes the team from a California veterans' medical center.
All cardiologists, including our physicians at North Ohio Heart Center, are implanting fewer stents than in the past because delivering optimal medical therapy with lifestyle changes reduces the need for these procedures.
This study is unique in that it looks at a combination of different lifestyle and personality traits, said Dr. Yaakov Stern, professor of clinical neurology at Columbia University Medical Center, who was not involved with the study.