Health & Fitness
Meet An “Amazing” Whose Research Continues To Save Lives
Jeremiah, known as "the father of preventive cardiology" and who wrote the subject's first textbook, sees no reason to retire.
Jeremiah Stamler, at 100, recently received almost half a million dollars in grant-funding from the National Institute of Health for his cutting-edge work in cardiovascular disease prevention, an area of research Jeremiah has explored since the 1950s when virtually no one else was talking about it.
Ideas about how diet and not smoking significantly reduce the chances of a heart attack are commonplace today, not so back then. Jeremiah, known as “the father of preventive cardiology” and who wrote the subject’s first textbook, sees no reason to retire. He’s still passionate about his work. In part due to Jeremiah’s research, death rates from heart disease in the United States declined by roughly 70 percent between the 1960s and 2010. Truly amazing.
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