Professor of Epidemiology, University of California San Diego
Dr. LaCroix is Professor and Chief of Epidemiology in the Department of Family Medicine and Public Health at the University of California, San Diego. She is also the Director of the Women’s Health Center of Excellence at UCSD. She has an extensive research program devoted to studies on factors associated with healthy aging in older women and men. She has conducted numerous randomized clinical trials and observational studies on the prevention of cancer, fracture, heart disease, and frailty in postmenopausal, as well as large, prospective studies of exceptional aging and maintaining physical and cognitive function into later life. She has published more than 400 peer-reviewed articles on these topics and was named a Thomson Reuters highly cited researcher in 2014.
Can sitting less decrease your risk of heart disease?
Feb 26, 2019 15:00 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
Too much sitting has long been criticized for contributing to premature mortality, Type 2 diabetes, and a host of other illnesses. In a new study of 5,638 women, we looked at how sedentary behavior was related to future...
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