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Article: Staying active lowers heart attack risk
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- Post-Tribune (IN)
- Article date:
- November 20, 2000
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Steffen-Batey is now an assistant professor of epidemiology at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health.Provided by the American Heart Assication, Midwest Affiliate.
Being physically active after a first heart attack appears to significantly lower the risk of death or a second heart attack, researchers from the American Heart Association say.
"Patients who kept physically active after a first heart attack had a 60 percent lower risk of fatal heart attack or a second nonfatal heart attack than those who did not," says author Dr. Lyn Steffen-Batey, who was an assistant professor of epidemiology at the University of ...