Rashmi Shetgiri is a pediatrician at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and Children's Medical Center Dallas.
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Dr. Roy Fleischmann, clinical professor at the UniversityofTexasSouthwesternMedicalCenteratDallas, was the lead author for this work, which was presented a month ago at the 65th annual scientific meeting of the American College of Rheumatology in San Francisco.
"It's true that the majority of cardiovascular protection comes from exercise at more moderate levels, but there is compelling evidence that there's no upper limit, " said Benjamin Levine, director of the Institute for Exercise and Environmental Medicine in Dallas and professor of medicine at the UniversityofTexasSouthwesternMedicalCenter.