A cat in a house keeps heart ailments away
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If you have a cat at home then chances are very bright and sunny that you will not die of heart ailment (at least). Latest studies proved that those who own a cat, in particular, have a healthy heart. With no hard feelings towards man’s best friend, the authority actually didn’t consider thinking about their benefits. May be next time! Dr. Adnan Qureshi, executive director of the Minnesota Stroke Institute at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis data reads, ‘out of 4,435 Americans, aged 30 to 75, who took part in the federal government's second National Health and Nutrition Examination Study, which ran from 1976-1980. According to the data in the survey, 2,435 of the participants either owned a cat or had owned a cat in the past, while the remaining 2,000 had never done so.’
Further more Qureshi's team then tracked rates of death from all causes, including heart and stroke. Cat owners "appeared to have a lower rate of dying from heart attacks" over 10 years of follow-up compared to feline-free folk. Qureshi, a proud owner of his own feline, Ninja, stressed that dogs probably would bring people the same kind of benefit, but the numbers of dog owners in the study wasn't big enough to count statistically.
So moral of the story oops study is that for a healthy heart, one should have a pet, especially a feline friend.
