{"id":11663,"date":"2019-02-04T09:51:03","date_gmt":"2019-02-04T14:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medicine\/?p=11663"},"modified":"2019-02-04T10:22:22","modified_gmt":"2019-02-04T15:22:22","slug":"dr-emelia-benjamin-featured-on-healthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medicine\/2019\/02\/04\/dr-emelia-benjamin-featured-on-healthday\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Emelia Benjamin featured on HealthDay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/medicine\/files\/2019\/02\/download.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"97\" height=\"136\" class=\" wp-image-11664 alignleft\" \/>Dr. Emelia Benjamin, Vice Chair for Faculty Development and Diversity for the Department of Medicine, recently led the committee that published a report titled <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ahajournals.org\/doi\/10.1161\/CIR.0000000000000659\">Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics &#8211; 2019 Update<\/a>,<\/em> the findings from which were highlighted in a Jan 31st article on HealthDay.com.<\/p>\n<p>While the report found that nearly half of American adults\u00a0have high\u00a0blood pressure, heart disease or a history of stroke, there are steps you can take to delay or prevent these conditions.\u00a0<span>&#8220;Stop smoking, eat healthier, exercise, get your cholesterol and blood sugar under control,&#8221; Benjamin said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/consumer.healthday.com\/cardiovascular-health-information-20\/high-blood-pressure-health-news-358\/nearly-half-of-american-adults-have-unhealthy-hearts-report-742173.html\">Read More.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Emelia Benjamin, Vice Chair for Faculty Development and Diversity for the Department of Medicine, recently led the committee that published a report titled Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics &#8211; 2019 Update, the findings from which were highlighted in a Jan 31st article on HealthDay.com. While the report found that nearly half of American adults\u00a0have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14042,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3134],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11663"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14042"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11663"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11665,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11663\/revisions\/11665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}