Wednesday, March 28, 2007

people in city get more heart attacks and diseases

A new studyhas revealed that where you live, city or rural world, plays a bigger role in your risk for heart diseases and heart attacks than your ethnicity or race.

It has been found that people living in cities are more prone to heart attacks than people living in rural areas.

The study has revealed that based on blood pressure and cholesterol levels, smoking status, age, sex, and diabetes, urban dwellers living in metro cities had a much greater risk of developing heart disease and getting heart attacks.

The urban population also has larger waistlines and higher levels of an inflammatory blood marker known as C-reactive protein that has been linked to an increased risk of heart disease and heart attacks.

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