The ranking of risk factors for heart attack and stroke must be corrected. Smoking is number one, number two and new: a low intelligence quotient, number three obesity and high blood pressure.
The Brain power plays for the risk profile of cardiovascular disease a major role. This is the result of the British Medical Research Council funded 20-year study with 1145 men and women aged around 55 years. Published the results in the European Journal of Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation ".
subject of the investigation were the effects of social factors on health in the general population. British scientists collected data on height, weight, blood pressure, smoking, physical activity, education and occupation. The intellectual abilities (IQ) determined it to one of the usual intelligence tests.
The result: a low intelligence quotient (IQ) after smoking the most important risk indicator for cardiovascular disease, even more significant as obesity and high blood pressure. Similar results were obtained in terms of overall mortality.
relationship between IQ and health-damaging behavior
study leader David Batty gives several mechanisms by which a low IQ increases the risk of cardiovascular disease. In particular, the relationship between the low intelligence and unhealthy behaviors such as smoking and low physical activity, respect, and the associated consequences such as obesity or High blood pressure. Another possible explanation is the fact that the IQ of a person as an indicator of the sum in the course of his life is physical damage caused by illness or malnutrition stands.
"The merit of this work is to have highlighted the relative importance of IQ in comparison to some known risk factors," said Helmut Gohlke, chief physician of the Heart Centre in Bad Krozingen. The low IQ is an indicator of higher risk. It is not entirely on the talent but also of education and training. It is has long been known that socially underprivileged a significantly lower life expectancy than the population in the upper social strata.
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