Leon presents at International XX Puijo Symposium
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Art Leon, M.D., Kinesiology professor and director of the School's Laboratory of Physical Hygiene and Exercise Science, participated in the International XX Puijo Symposium in Kuopio, Finland, June 20-29. He presented on the cardiac benefits and risk of exercise, particularly in sudden death due to either occult coronary artery disease or in young athletes due to inherited cardiovascular conditions. Dr. Leon also chaired a session to select Outstanding Young Investigator.
Dr. Leon has been invited to participate in conferences in Finland since 1978 and the biennial Puijo symposium in Kuopio since 1982. There is a long history between LPHES and Finland beginning in the 1960s, when renowned U of M researcher Ancel Keys and Marti Karvonen, an exercise physiologist and former Surgeon General of Finland, started the famous Seven Countries Study, which posed the hypothesis that differences among populations in the frequency of heart attacks and stroke would occur in some orderly relation to physical characteristics and lifestyle, particularly diet composition and fats in the diet.