Can Exercise Training Cool Down the Flames?
From the Québec Heart Institute, Laval Hospital Research Center, Québec, Canada Correspondence to Jean-Pierre Després, PhD, FAHA, Québec Heart Institute, Laval Hospital Research Center, Pavilion Marguerite-D Youville, 4th Floor, 2725, Chemin Sainte-Foy, Sainte-Foy QC, Canada G1V 4G5. Email Jean-Pierre.Despres{at}crhl.ulaval.ca’ + u + ‘@’ + d + ”//–> Although epidemiological and clinical studies conducted over the last 40 years have identified variables which became well accepted “classical” coronary heart disease (CHD) risk factors (such as increased cholesterol and low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol levels, diabetes, hypertension, smoking, etc.),1,2 it was also obvious that these parameters had limited ability to discriminate for CHD events.3 Therefore, which additional lifestyle or biological variables could help identify, at reasonable costs in clinical practice, individuals at increased risk of CHD remains a question of considerable importance.4 See pages 1868 and 1874 In
