A high level of education can save the risk of developing cardiovascular disease: a study to support published in Circulation, a journal of the American Heart Association official from the Emory Rollins School of Public Health and the Emory School of Medicine in Atlanta (USA), which provides the link between education and healthy heart is true, however, only for the inhabitants of developed countries, and not for citizens of countries with low and middle income countries.
During the study, which lasted two years, researchers led by Abhinav Goyal examined 61,332 patients, mean age 69 years from 44 countries, all suffering from heart and other risk factors including smoking habit, high blood pressure , ateroclerosi and obesity. 36% of the sample consisted of women and 64% men, and all were investigated years education and socio-economic level achieved. The study found that high rates of schooling protect against cardiovascular disease, especially the residents of countries with high income and highly educated men in particular, which showed lower rates of heart problems.
Educated women in developing countries have instead registered a slight increase in the incidence of heart attack and stroke, due also to the increase of smoking in this category compared to educated women in rich countries, "Do not we think that just because some groups are more educated than others adopt a healthy lifestyle - said Goyal -. All they need to be educated about the risk of heart disease and, in particular, they should be advised to adopt healthy lifestyles and to stop smoking. "
Source: AGI / Science
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