Podcast appearances and mentions of sylvia wassertheil-smoller

February 2, 2012 - Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University and New York University have found that high levels of triglycerides (blood fats) are the strongest risk factor for the most common type of stroke in older women - more of a risk factor than elevated levels of total cholesterol or of low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol (known as "bad" cholesterol).

In this segment of Einstein On: Literature, Sylvia Wassertheil-Smoller, Ph.D., professor of epidemiology and population health, discusses her novel, Rachel and Aleks.

In this segment of Einstein On: Literature, Sylvia Wassertheil-Smoller, Ph.D., professor of epidemiology and population health, discusses her novel, Rachel and Aleks, and shares Holocaust memories and experiences with readers.

January 12, 2010 — Older women with hypertension are at increased risk for developing brain lesions that cause dementia later in life, according to data from the Women's Health Initiative Memory Study (WHIMS). The findings were published in the December 2009 online issue of the Journal of Clinical Hypertension.

December 14, 2009 — Postmenopausal women who take antidepressants face a small but statistically significant increased risk for stroke and death compared with those who do not take the drugs. The new findings are from the federally-funded, multi-institution, Women's Health Initiative Study sponsored by the National Institutes of Health, and the results are published in the December 14 online edition of Archives of Internal Medicine.