Heart-protecting living
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From the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, I'm Ira Dreyfuss with HHS HealthBeat.
A healthy lifestyle is generally good for the heart, as we know. And researchers say they can spot one way in which women's hearts specifically may benefit - a reduced risk of sudden cardiac death.
At Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women's Hospital, researcher Stephanie Chiuve looked at 26 years of data on more than 81,700 women. She focused on exercise, a healthy weight, not smoking, and eating mostly vegetables, fruits and nuts, whole grains and fish.
``Women who adhered to all four of these low-risk lifestyle factors had a 92 percent lower risk of sudden cardiac death, compared to women who'd adhered to none of these low-risk factors.'' (9 seconds)
The study in the Journal of the American Medical Association was supported by the National Institutes of Health.
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HHS HealthBeat is a production of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. I'm Ira Dreyfuss.