How's about This, Grandma?!

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" A study by Sunmin Lee, Sc.D., of the Harvard School of Public Health

and Harvard Medical School and colleagues found that women who cared

for grandchildren at least nine hours a week had a 55 percent

increased risk of heart attack.

" In comparison to women not providing child care, " Lee

says, " providing care to grandchildren nine hours or more per week

was associated with a significantly increased risk of coronary heart

disease even after control for a number of potential confounders. "

The study appears in the November issue of the American Journal of

Public Health. Lee and colleagues gathered data from 54,412 women

responding to the Nurses Health Study. "