Coronary Artery Disease
Study looks at role of intra-abdominal fat in heart disease in women
Published in Women's Health Weekly, September 4th, 2003
Lynda Powell, PhD, has been studying women in the Beverly and Morgan Park neighborhoods in Chicago for several years as part of the Study of Women Across the Nation (SWAN). The SWAN study, funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Heart, Lung and Blood Diseases, is the first large-scale national study to examine the health of women in their 40s and 50s. SWAN is designed to track the health of approximately 3,200 women during the...
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