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...turnout was unbelievable,” said Maura Kennedy, Network liaison for Harvard Medical School (HMS). “I walked into the room and there were people packed side to side. You couldn’t get to the table to get a glass of water because there were so many people filling the room...
...separate research teams comprised of researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health and Harvard Medical School (HMS) published their findings on magnesium and reduced type II diabetes risk in the January 2004 issue of the journal Diabetes Care...
...HMS Assistant Professor of Medicine Simin Liu, the senior author in the WHS findings, said he believed that the studies differed because of varying definitions of what it means to be overweight. For the WHS study, a person was labeled overweight if her Body Mass Index (BMI), a measure of total body fat, was above 25—the lower limit of the overweight category as defined by the National Institutes of Health...
...team decided to use 27 as the minimum BMI cutoff to define overweight because 27 is the median BMI for overweight people, said HMS Assistant Professor of Medicine Frank B. Hu, the senior author of the NHS study...
According to Mark L. Waltzman, a pediatrician at Children’s Hospital and member of the HMS faculty, the doctors, foregoing standard testing procedures, relied on physical examination, past experience and intuition to treat patients...