AHA/ASA EPI and Stroke Council committee(s) member and volunteer expert, Daniel T. Lackland, Dr.PH. offers perspective (via Skype) on ISC 20 presentation TP172. He is Professor of Epidemiology at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston. 
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"It's important to be active, and that's great, but it is the simple seven as the Heart Association likes to put forward. And I think that that's very important that it's not the only thing. So individuals that are becoming active, that's great and thumbs up for this, but that doesn't offset treating blood pressure, controlling your cholesterol. It doesn't mean now I can smoke because I'm active. It means I wanna put this as one activity as an important consideration of the total package or with these other risk factors. So it's so very important, be active but also control your blood pressure, control your cholesterol."