Health Bulletin
Older men who walk daily may lower their stroke risk
Older men who walked at least one to two hours each day compared to less than half an hour per day had a reduced risk of stroke, in a large population-based study reported in the American Heart Association journal Stroke.
Women with asthma may take longer to get pregnant
Women with asthma seem to experience delays in getting pregnant, Danish researchers report in the European Respiratory Journal.
Whether this trend is because asthma has a direct biological effect on fertility or because having asthma reduces the frequency of intercourse is not clear, however, the researchers said.
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