Alert, unemployment at risk of hit heart attack

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Finding a job that suits your interests is not as easy as turning the palm of the hand. Many people are then forced to idle. Caution, do not take a long time to be unemployed than non-healthy because purses are also at risk of heart attack.

One study found that the risk of heart attack associated with unemployment equal to the risk posed by a major risk factor in heart disease and blood vessel disease such as smoking, diabetes and high blood pressure.

This risk applies to men and women of all ethnicities. To find this conclusion, researchers from Duke University interviewed nearly 13,500 adults over 20 years.

"What we found was the risk of heart attack was significantly higher among the unemployed. Risk increased gradually as more and more lost jobs," said the researchers, Matthew Dupre as reported by HealthDay, Tuesday (11/20/2012).

Losing a job can have a major impact on health of chronic diseases like heart or other negative behaviors. For example, smoking does not necessarily influence the health of the heart and blood vessels, but their use for long periods of time is dangerous.

In a report published the journal Archives of Internal Medicine, researchers examined the responses of employment status obtained from the study titled U.S. Health and Retirement Study in 1992-2010 for people aged 51-75 years. Responses were then compared with the incidence of heart attacks during the same time frame.

As many as 14 percent of participants at baseline were unemployed and nearly 7 out of 10 people have lost their jobs at least once during the study period. The increase in the number of unemployed in this study more or less affected by the financial crisis of 2008 in the U.S. when unemployment is at its highest for 30 years.

The study found that nearly 8 percent of the participants had heart attacks during the study period. Most who experience it are the elderly, male sex, white or Caucasian and living in the southern U.S..

Besides unemployment, low income levels, lack of education, lack of health insurance, excess weight or obesity, high blood pressure or diabetes, disability, depression and unhealthy lifestyles also increase the risk of heart attack.

Researchers found that the likelihood of having a heart attack increases with every lost job when compared with those who had never lost a job. The period of the first year of unemployment was found to increase the risk of heart attack, but unemployed for over a year is not so much to increase the risk.

"Being unemployed lead to stress. Stress has been associated with increased risk of incident cardiovascular disease. Stress itself causes triggers inflammatory responses that can cause an increased risk of heart and vascular disease," said Gregg Fonarow, professor of cardiology at the University of California , Los Angeles.

In addition, there are several other theories that explain that people who lose their jobs tend to be less health. It could also be due to being unemployed and then increase the likelihood of consuming alcohol, smoking, lack of exercise or eating unhealthy foods.

Source:  HealthDay