The mind protects against heart attack

Intelligence protects the heart, so the wise man not afraid of a heart attack. This is the conclusion, researchers from Scotland. However, American cardiologists took this statement with skepticism - they do not consider all of their patients fools.
Outside the intellectual level of a person - an IQ - Can be used to predict risk heart attack   or heart attack . The higher the level, the lower the risk.

To such conclusion the group of researchers from the University of Glasgow. During the entire 20 years they watched the 1100 Scots both sexes and middle age.

It turned out that those men and women who have   IQ was low, more often transferred heart attacks . It is interesting that this ratio gave a more accurate prediction than even risk factors such as high blood pressure, a sedentary lifestyle and property income. Only smoking is outweighed by the degree of accuracy of IQ as a predictor.

The findings of this study are published in the Journal of Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation. They were immediately met skeptical comments by cardiologists. So, Dr. Elizabeth Barrett-Connor of the University of California in San Diego called for in any case not to attribute IQ level in the category of risk. She called the study flawed and misleading.

"Scottish researchers did not consider that low IQ Usually means a lower social status, which means less access to medicine, less awareness of people about the various risk factors and the like, "- said Dr. Mary Meyerson, director of preventive cardiology at the hospital St. Luke's-Roosevelt in New York .

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