Physical activity in the prevention of coronary heart disease: implications for the clinician

Heart Podcast

English - June 29, 2016 14:30 - 9 minutes - 12.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 34 ratings
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In this episode of the Heart Podcast, Heart associate editor Dr James Rudd is in conversation with Dr Tina Varghese from Emory University, Atlanta. She has written a review paper on "Physical activity in the prevention of coronary heart disease: implications for the clinician".

http://heart.bmj.com/content/early/2016/03/03/heartjnl-2015-308773.full

In this podcast, they discuss the benefits of regular exercise, how much is too much, how exercise protects your heart and why we aren't good at prescribing exercise for our patients.