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LOS ANGELES , Nov. 4, 2012 The American Heart Association awarded its Population advantage rent a car one way trip Research Prize for 2012 to epidemiologist Aaron R. Folsom, M.D., of the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, for excellence in population-based research adding importantly to knowledge of multiple factors associated with greater cardiovascular disease risk.
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Folsom, also a professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Community Health at the university in Minneapolis, received the prize during opening ceremonies of the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions 2012. Association President Donna Arnett, Ph.D., of Birmingham, advantage rent a car one way trip Ala., made the presentation.
advantage rent a car one way trip For the past three decades, Dr. Folsom has devoted his career to understanding cardiovascular disease occurrence at the population level and population approaches to its prevention, Arnett said. In important work with the Minnesota Heart Survey, the scientist focused on hypertension detection and control, on time trends in sudden death and acute heart attack, and the association of leisure time activity to coronary heart disease risk factors, Arnett said.
Folsom is a leader of several major population-based studies of the risk of atherosclerosis in ethnic groups and in communities. His investigation of thromboembolism and its causes advantage rent a car one way trip has added greatly to our understanding of the risk of clot formation in the veins, including lifestyle and genetic factors, Arnett said. He had a major role in the Iowa Women s Health Study for 25 years.
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