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CORRECTIONS

The headline on Sarah

Kaufman’s Critic’s Notebook in

the Aug. 27 Style section, about

“Good Morning America” host

Lara Spencer’s mocking

statements about Britain’s

6-year-old Prince George

planning to study ballet in school,

should have used the term ballet

shoes, not pointe shoes, to refer to

the footwear of male ballet

dancers. Female dancers wear

pointe shoes.

A photo caption with an Aug. 25

Outlook book review of “The

Liberation of Paris” misstated

when Paris was liberated. It was

in August 1944, not July 1944.

The headline on a national

digest item in the Aug. 23

A-section, about the arrest of a

man in the stabbing death of a

retired administrator at

California State University at

Fullerton, incorrectly described

the attack as a shooting.

A Sports digest item in some

Aug. 23 editions contained

multiple errors about a University

of Maryland women’s soccer

game the day before. The item

incorrectly said that Maryland

lost its season opener, 1-0, against

Georgia Southern. Maryland won

the game, 2-1. The item also said

that Grace Geise scored a goal for

Georgia Southern and that the

goal was scored in the 37th

minute. Georgia Southern’s goal

was accidentally scored by a

Maryland player and it came in

the 39th minute. Geise plays not

for Georgia Southern but for

Indiana, which faced Maryland in

the last game of the previous

season.

An April 3 Metro article about

Virginia lawmakers battling over

plans for a public hearing into

Meredith Watson’s assault

allegations against Virginia

Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax incorrectly

described the location of the

alleged sexual assault. Watson

said the assault happened in an

unspecified room, not Fairfax’s

room at Duke University.

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BY LINDSEY BEVER

Progress in reducing the num-

ber of deaths related to cardiovas-

cular disease has been waning in

recent years, heightening con-

cerns that the obesity epidemic in

the United States is undoing im-

provements in heart health.

A research letter published

Tuesday in the Journal of the

American Medical Association

confirms that although the death

rates from heart disease, diabetes,

stroke and related disorders have

been decreasing for decades, the

rates have recently slowed or

stalled.

“At best, progress has slowed to

a halt, and at worst, our rates of

cardiovascular disease are going

up,” said Steven Nissen, chief aca-

demic officer for the Heart and

Vascular Institute at the Cleve-

land Clinic. “And the cause, pretty

much everybody agrees, is the

obesity epidemic and all of its

downstream consequences.”

More than 93 million adults

and nearly 14 million children and

adolescents in the United States

are considered to be obese — a

number that has been climbing

for decades, according to the Cen-

ters for Disease Control and Pre-

vention. Obesity, which dispro-

portionately affects African

Americans and Latinos, can lead

to diabetes, stroke and heart dis-

ease, the last being the leading

cause of death in the United

States.

Researchers analyzed death

records from 1999 to 2017 from

the CDC and found a measurable

shift in the past decade. The de-

cline in mortality rates from heart

disease has slowed, mortality

rates for stroke and diabetes have

plateaued, and there has been an

increase in mortality from hyper-

tension-related problems such as

kidney disease.

Senior author Sadiya Khan, as-

sistant professor of cardiology

and epidemiology at Northwest-

ern University’s Feinberg School

of Medicine, said the research also

showed that the disparities be-

tween black and white Americans

have persisted, with blacks at a

greater risk of death from these

diseases. The CDC released data

last year showing that the death

rate for heart disease has been

decreasing about 2.4 percent per

year among whites and 2.2 per-

cent per year among blacks over

the past 50 years.

Khan said the researchers were

surprised to learn that “we’re not

seeing continued progress” de-

spite a steady decline in smoking

— a common cause of cardiovas-

cular disease — and ongoing ad-

vances in medicine, including di-

agnostics; new drugs to treat high

cholesterol, high blood pressure

and diabetes; and surgical tech-

niques.

“The concern is that if there’s a

plateau now, what’s coming in the

next five to 10 years?” she said.

Cardiologist Salim Virani,

chair of the American College of

Cardiology’s Council for the Pre-

vention of Cardiovascular Dis-

ease, said, “It’s not all negative —

death rates have come down.” But

he said it’s important to continue

pushing for medical advance-

ments — uniformly, across all

populations — to further reduce

death rates.

“As those rates of decline are

slowing down, we need to contin-

ue to evolve our thinking, as well

as our therapies, to make sure that

we catch up with those stalling

rates in decline,” Virani said. “It

basically is a question that is

posed, and we need to come up

with answers both in terms of

what’s driving it and what can be

done to address it.”

Health experts agree that a key

component is early intervention

in schools, encouraging exercise

and healthy eating habits among

children, and discouraging activi-

ties such as smoking that may

lead to problems later on. Nissen,

with the Cleveland Clinic, said

that particularly with obesity, “we

have got to attack this problem

before it gets to the point where

people are really obese and are in

trouble. Because once people have

developed severe obesity, revers-

ing that is very difficult.”

Eduardo Sanchez, the Ameri-

can Heart Association’s chief

medical officer for prevention and

chief of the Center for Health

Metrics and Evaluation, said in a

statement about the new study:

“While we are heartened by the

collective impact of efforts to re-

duce cardiometabolic mortality,

we cannot and will not be compla-

cent about recent reductions and

plateauing in the rates at which

[cardiovascular disease] mortal-

ity is dropping.” He called for a

continued focus on reducing

smoking, increasing physical ac-

tivity and healthful eating, and

managing conditions such as high

blood pressure, high cholesterol,

diabetes and obesity, as well as

eliminating the disparities in

mortality rates among all popula-

tions.

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BY DOUGLAS MOSER

AND NICK ANDERSON

BOSTON — Actress Lori

Loughlin and her husband, fash-

ion designer Mossimo Giannulli,

returned here to federal court

Tuesday for a pretrial hearing to

confirm their legal representa-

tion as they fight criminal charg-

es in the college admissions brib-

ery scandal.

Loughlin and Giannulli, of Los

Angeles, are two of the best-

known parents accused of wrong-

doing after an investigation into

irregularities in admissions test-

ing and the admissions process at

prominent schools, including

Stanford, Yale and Georgetown

universities, the University of

California at Los Angeles and the

University of Southern Califor-

nia.

In March, the U.S. attorney for

Massachusetts revealed an auda-

cious scheme in which a Califor-

nia consultant named William

“Rick” Singer helped children of

wealthy parents obtain fraudu-

lent SAT or ACT test scores and

pose as athletic recruits in an

effort get into top schools

through what Singer called “the

side door.” Singer, the admitted

mastermind, has pleaded guilty

to racketeering conspiracy and

other charges in a case prosecu-

tors nicknamed Varsity Blues.

Prosecutors say Loughlin and

Giannulli paid a total of

$500,000 in 2016 and 2017 for

Singer to facilitate admission of

their two daughters to USC as

purported crew recruits. The cou-

ple have pleaded not guilty to two

counts: conspiracy to commit

money laundering; and conspira-

cy to commit mail and wire fraud

and honest services mail and

wire fraud.

Tuesday’s hearing before Mag-

istrate Judge M. Page Kelley was

scheduled to discuss issues relat-

ed to a rule of criminal procedure

that aims to ensure defendants

have effective legal representa-

tion even if they share an attor-

ney. Loughlin and Giannulli are

both represented by attorneys

from the firm Latham & Watkins.

Until recently, Latham & Watkins

also represented USC, which has

a stake in the case. A trial date

has not yet been set.

Loughlin became widely

known for her role as Aunt Becky

on the ABC television sitcom

“Full House.” Giannulli made a

name for himself designing

clothes.

The hearing was merely pro-

cedural, but the celebrity defen-

dants drew attention from televi-

sion journalists and courthouse

visitors. A half-hour before the

hearing, news helicopters droned

overhead and gawkers were

snapping pictures of the scene

from the street.

Loughlin and Giannulli

walked quietly into the court-

room with three attorneys. He

wore a navy suit, a blue-and-

white striped shirt and blue tie.

She wore a trim gray sweater

with a slate, knee-length dress.

Before taking her seat, Lough-

lin leaned over to the prosecu-

tors, shaking their hands and

saying, “Nice to see you again.”

The couple sat mostly still,

giving soft, one-word yes-or-no

answers as Kelley explored po-

tential conflicts of interest and

made sure they understood risks

and rights.

At the end, they signed docu-

ments affirming their legal team.

One of their attorneys, Sean M.

Berkowitz, told reporters: “We’re

not going to be saying anything.”

They left in a silver Ford Explor-

er.

Of 51 people charged in the

case, 34 are parents. Fifteen par-

ents have pleaded guilty to fraud

conspiracy, including actress Fe-

licity Huffman, who prosecutors

said paid $15,000 to help one of

her daughters get a phony SAT

score.

The rest of the parents, includ-

ing Loughlin and Giannulli, are

fighting the charges.

Legal experts say the parents

face a threat of prison time, a risk

that could escalate for those con-

victed after a trial. Prosecutors

often recommend more lenient

punishment for those who plead

guilty.

The maximum prison term for

fraud conspiracy is 20 years. But

experts predict any sentences for

parents caught in the Varsity

Blues scandal would be far short-

er.

Anderson reported from Washington.

Obesity cited as gains against heart disease slow

The research also showed that the disparities

between black and white Americans have

persisted, with blacks at a greater risk of death

from these diseases.

Lori Loughlin back in court in admissions scandal

JOSH REYNOLDS/REUTERS

Actress Lori Loughlin and her husband, fashion designer Mossimo Giannulli, arrive at federal court in Boston for a hearing about their

legal representation. They have pleaded not guilty to fraud conspiracy and money laundering conspiracy in the Varsity Blues case.

The hearing was merely procedural,

but the celebrity defendants drew attention

from television journalists and courthouse visitors.

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