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How Volunteering Improves Your Health

A study published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine by a team of Harvard psychologists shows that adults 50 years and older who volunteer two hours per week have considerably lower risk of losing independence and of dying.

How Volunteering Improves Your Health

A study published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine by a team of Harvard psychologists shows that adults 50 years and older who volunteer two hours per week have considerably lower risk of losing independence and of dying. This volunteer time also inspires feelings of well-being and improves their quality of life. The study was conducted with 13,000 participants in the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) and showed that volunteering protected participants from feelings of loneliness, depression and despair. Sounds like just what the doctor ordered! https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-06/e-dgd060820.php

 
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Vaccination, the new weapon in cardiovascular prevention

Vaccination was originally designed to prevent infectious diseases by immunizing against the agent that causes them. However, it is of real interest in cardiology, and a European consensus underlines its crucial, but still underestimated, role in cardiovascular prevention. Long limited to the [...]

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Leave everything behind to create a foundation

Thierry Drilhon was profiled in the Opinon newspaper. After a rich career at the head of several international groups, he and Claire Mounier-Véhier created Agir pour le Coeur des Femmes to put their expertise at the service of women's health. Here's a look back at an extraordinary career [...]

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Lipoprotein (a) and the aortic heart valve

Lipoprotein A is a lipid particle composed of LDL cholesterol, which forms the deposits that make up atherosclerotic plaque, and is associated with a component—a side chain—that promotes thrombosis. It is less well known that elevated levels of this substance also contribute to calcification of [...]

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