Anyone can have a heart attack if not very clever to maintain their physical health, especially the overweight and eat more unhealthy intake. However, a recent study found a specific blood groups are also more at risk.
"It's very interesting, because we were finally able to ensure that people with blood type other than O not only more at risk of cancer and heart disease, but knowing that this fact affects the risk of death of the blood groups," said lead researcher Dr. Arash Etemadi .
Why so? Because after observing 50,000 middle-aged and elderly participants from Iran for seven years, a team of researchers from the National Institutes of Health, the US found that participants who had a blood type other than O, namely A, B or AB risk of dying earlier because of various diseases. Chances of reaching 9 percent.
Another risk that haunt owner blood factions are cardiovascular disorders (15 percent) and gastric cancer (55 percent).
"And this association is so strong, do not care if we have to consider other factors such as age, gender, smoking, socioeconomic status and ethnicity of participants," said Dr. Etemadi as quoted by LiveScience, Friday (01/16/2015).
Dr. Emetadi estimate risk of death in addition to blood group O was obtained from special factors, such as in the blood groups A tend to have total cholesterol and LDL (bad cholesterol) which is higher than any other blood type.
"They are not blood type O also has a tendency to experience blood clots, making it more vulnerable to heart problems," he said.
But do not worry, this is not to say epidemiologists blood group as the only risk factor for heart problems. For the length of the short life span and a high risk of heart disease is influenced by various factors, including exercise habits and overall health condition.
"Early death could be due to a combination of many factors, and is not merely for your blood type," concluded Dr. Emetadi.
