Risk factors for healthy living
Living Alone Raises Serious Heart Risk:
July 13, 2006 — Living alone may be hazardous to your heart.
A new study (published in Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health) shows that people who live alone are twice as likely to have a heart attack or serious chest pain and sudden cardiac death as those who live with a partner or roommate.
Researchers say the results suggest that doctors should take a patient’s living situation as well as age and other established risk factors into account when assessing his or her risk of heart disease.
They say certain heart disease risk factors may be more common in the lifestyles of people who live alone, such as obesity, smoking, high cholesterol, and making fewer visits to the family doctor, and may help explain the findings.
So many risk factors for so many diseases. With each published article, the total number of risk factors to acquire a disease increases. Soon we will be left with very few “risk factors†for a healthy living (and I doubt that too - someone goes on a morning walk to keep his heart healthy, trips and breaks his leg!!)
Who should be in control of our life - us or our risk factors?
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