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  • Exercise lowers heart disease risk, even for younger women

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    By Kathryn Doyle (Reuters Health) – For women under age 50, spending two and half hours of leisure time each week being active could cut heart disease risk by 25%, according to a U.S. study. While that’s been shown before for middle aged and older adults, less was known about whether exercise would make a…

  • Does heart disease mean a less active sex life?

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    By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – Middle-aged adults with recently diagnosed heart disease may be less sexually active than their healthier peers, a recent U.K. study suggests. Researchers analyzed survey data from about 3,000 men and 3,700 women aged 50 and older, including 376 men and 279 women with heart disease. Among heart disease patients…

  • Gum disease linked to breast cancer risk in older women

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    By Kathryn Doyle (Reuters Health) – Middle-aged and older women with gum disease are slightly more likely than those without gum problems to develop breast cancer, suggests a new study. The risk increase was most pronounced for women with gum disease who smoked cigarettes or had quit within the past 20 years, although the authors…