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Your cat may be good for your heart!

Posted in Cardiovascular Sciences, Heart and Stroke Awareness, Prevention, Stress/stressors • Tags: , , ,

Had a bad day at the office? What about getting a cat to de-stress? Owning a cat may even benefit your heart, according to a 20-year “feline lifeline” study by researchers at the University of Minnesota Stroke Center.

Examining data on 4,435 adults, the researchers found that the relative risk of death from heart attack was 40 percent higher for those who had never owned a cat. Specifically, 3.4 percent of cat owners died from a heart attack during the course of the study versus 5.8 percent of non-owners.

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Posted on July 23, 2008 by Raquel Billiones • There are no comments, hop to it!


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