Instructors

Elizabeth Mostofsky

Instructor

Epidemiology

elm225@mail.harvard.edu


Bibliography


News

Eating chocolate may decrease risk of irregular heartbeat

For immediate release: May 23, 2017 Boston, MA – Consuming moderate amounts of chocolate was associated with significantly lower risk of being diagnosed with atrial fibrillation (AF)—a common and dangerous type of irregular heartbeat—in a large study of…

Binge drinking linked with higher heart attack risk

People who binge drink are 72% more likely to have a heart attack than those who don’t, according to a new study from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Researchers looked at interview data from nearly 4,000…