Erin Michos, one of the writers of new preventive guidelines
said,“In more today's society, heart attack rates have dropped with reduced smoking rates and better blood pressure treatment, better cholesterol management.”.
I think people do it because they think they
are being healthy,” says Erin Michos, M.D., the new study's lead author
and an associate professor of medicine at The Johns Hopkins Hospital.
Erin Michos- who's an associate professor of medicine
at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine- and colleagues reviewed the medical data of 6,302 study participants initially recruited for the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis.