CBS Evening News - 1992-09-08
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[0:04] A major medical study raises important
[0:06] questions about how much iron we eat and
[0:09] heart disease.
[0:11] As schools open across the country,
[0:13] serious concern about a silent threat to
[0:15] the health of our children.
[0:17] And Eye on America, tonight a culture
[0:20] clash that is shaking thousands of
[0:22] households to the core.
[0:24] >> I was trying to talk to my girl in in
[0:27] Spanish. She looked at me and said,
[0:29] "Mom,
[0:30] please speak English."
[0:32] It did hurt me.
[0:36] >> This is the CBS Evening News.
[0:43] Good evening, Dan Rather reporting. A
[0:45] new medical study has a lot of people
[0:47] wondering tonight about their health and
[0:49] what they eat. This study links high
[0:52] levels of iron to heart attacks. CBS
[0:56] News health correspondent Edie Magnus
[0:57] has been talking to the experts about
[0:59] what the study means and what you should
[1:02] do about it.
[1:04] >> It's the first hard evidence in humans
[1:06] that iron in the body, at levels
[1:08] currently regarded as normal, may in
[1:11] fact increase a person's risk of heart
[1:13] disease, may even be a bigger risk than
[1:15] high blood pressure or high cholesterol.
[1:18] >> If this finding is correct, it'll help
[1:20] us understand more fully those factors
[1:23] which go into leading people to have
[1:26] heart attacks.
[1:27] >> The study of middle-aged men in Finland
[1:29] found a striking correlation. The higher
[1:31] the level of iron in their bodies, the
[1:33] greater their chance of having a heart
[1:35] attack. The new research adds to a
[1:37] mounting body of evidence that iron
[1:39] promotes the formation of plaque, which
[1:41] can harden arteries and block the flow
[1:43] of blood to the heart.
[1:45] The possible role of iron i