American Heart Association President, Mitchell S. V. Elkind, M.D., M.S., FAHA, FAAN, professor of neurology and epidemiology at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons and attending neurologist at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center in New York, New York offers perspective via Zoom on EPI Lifestyle 2021 presentation 74.
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"Heart health and brain health are connected. We've known for a long time that increasing physical activity and decreasing the amount of time spent in sedentary behaviors like watching television can improve one's heart health. Now, we're seeing that those same activities can also decrease one's chance of cognitive decline and dementia, and improve brain health."