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New Study Links IQ With Heart Disease

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(July 15) - New research points to lower intelligence as a heart disease risk factor and recommends simplifying public health messages.
A study by Scottish researchers showed IQ accounted for more than 20 percent of the difference in heart disease and stroke mortality between people in higher and lower socioeconomic groups, HealthDay reported.
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The study of nearly 4,300 former U.S. soldiers took into account known cardiovascular health factors, including smoking and obesity, but study leader David Batty said these elements alone were insufficient to explain the difference in mortality.
"Unmeasured psychological factors need to be considered," Batty said. "One of these is intelligence or cognitive function, commonly referred to as IQ ... IQ is strongly related to socioeconomic status."
People of lower socioeconomic status fare worse when it comes to heart disease, according to Batty. He recommended efforts be launched to lessen social inequalities and increase education across the board.
The findings of the study, published in Wednesday's issue of the European Heart Journal, further suggest that public health campaigns need to be simplified to reach a broader audience. Batty said current messages are often complicated, contradictory and unclear, making them "difficult to interpret, even by knowledgeable people."
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ACH101

05:40 PMJul 20 2009

Matouriley03------WHAT DOES BEING WHITE HAVE TO DO WITH ANYTHING? WHAT MATTERS IS WHAT YOU ARE EXPOSED TO NOT WHAT COLOR YOU ARE. SOME OF THE MOST STUPID PEOPLE I KNOW ACCORDING TO THE I.Q. SCALE ARE UNWISE AND UNDERUTILIZE OR COMPROMISE THEIR "SUPPOSED" GIFTS. THERE IS A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN WISDOM AND INTELLECT.

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ACH101

05:33 PMJul 20 2009

IT IS A FACT THAT SMARTER PEOPLE EAT SMARTER I.E. LESS SATUATED FATS AND SUGARS BECAUSE THEY ARE EDUCATED TO KNOW BETTER. THEY ARE SMARTER BECAUSE THEY READ!

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Alexhbnme

04:49 PMJul 20 2009

Oh, Duey35 You comment about your spelling and still can't learn the difference between your and your: "Hmmm If your stupid and you know it raise your hand.... " Look at what you wrote! Now please, write this exercise 10 times. "Your" is possessive. Do not use "your" when you mean: you are. If you want to shorten "you are," then the word is you're. (Oh, I wish I had more than a 3rd grade education.;o)

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Garydebby

11:57 PMJul 19 2009

How smart do you have to be to work 35 years have a heart attack and now you lose everything because the bills are out of this world about a 1/4 millon dollors

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Lisanie43

03:38 PMJul 18 2009

Some people may have trouble interpreting the message thinking that smoking or eating unhealthy food may be good for them, when in fact it is bad. But poverty has also something to do with the fact that people couldn't afford to buy healthy food due to the expense and additional taxes. Instead healthy food should be a primary purchase option instead of an expensive or secondary option and to make it equally affordable to those with a low income. Fast food such as McDonald, Taco Bell and junk food such as sweets/candies. chocolate bars, should be heavily taxed and extremely expensive to purchase.

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Arentany

12:45 AMJul 18 2009

American medical science, like American medicine, not only has fallen from its once respectable level among world medicine, it has, quite honestly become an embarrassment. Its correlational studies -- the stuff of the gutter of all science, American public healthcare sillies -- are only taken seriously by those in American medicine. Such studies have no merit. They simply do not tell. They use IQ tests (and instruments from other fields) with little understanding. There is no "g." No reputable psychologist I know holds such a concept. The IQ is a measure of ability to function in middle class, western society -- that's what it was established to be. Nothing more. Their study is an implicit tautology. What on earth have these idiots become?

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Fresh Mown Hay

11:33 PMJul 17 2009

Batty is not a notable genius, either, it would seem. Wonder if it has occurred to him that there is a strong positive correlation between drowning and ice cream consumption rate. There is a link between good nutrition and IQ that he seems to have utterly missed. There is also a link between socioeconomic status and diet. People with nutrition deficits won't pay attention to ANY message because said deficits are by and large self inflicted, and therefore an invested lifestyle. So the moral of the story is that complete morons should not be involved in IQ related studies. And the ice cream/drowning issue? Those are both up on hot days.

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AresPrometheus

08:25 PMJul 17 2009

I don't know, my IQ is considered in the "gifted" range and I still eat crap and don't get enough exercise. I'm 41, 20 pounds overweight and I smoke, how smart is that?

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Matouriley03

02:58 PMJul 16 2009

This has to be the most insulting studies I have ever read! They are telling us in a "nice "way that stupid people can't tell how to take care of themselves ane will die before a smarter person. I really hope my tax $ are not used for crap like this. I have NEVER herd that your "IQ is strongly related to socioeconomic status."This was a waste to read, and is a waste to comment on except that I can personally tell you that I grew up on the streets, one parent, 2 sisters and have an IQ of 102, which is not high according to the IQ index. I was able to start a business at 16 and have a net worth of over 25.5M. I am not braging here, and I don't mean to come across that way, but the facts are the facts. I am White, 30, and my business is in the Fortune 500 list. People that can not Peole that can not understand differences and have low IQ's either have non IQ associated problems or are lazy. What scares me about this artice is that there are a large amount of people with low IQ's in the ...

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TillLarsen

05:24 AMJul 16 2009

Most individuals with higher IQ's also tend to deal with a larger number of theoretical stress inducing problems that have been demonstrated to increase cardiovascular complications!

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A person\'s IQ is linked to their risk for heart disease, according to a new study. Research shows that, among people in different socioeconomic classes, those of lower intelligence also had worse cardiovascular health. The study leader recommends simplifying public health messages.