Humidity and Width of Blood Vessels Determine Risk of Heart Disease

Two recent research reports from the journal Heart – a peer review journal for health professionals and researchers in all areas of cardiology.

1. Higher humidity and extreme temperatures increase the elderly’s risk of heart attacks. Learn more about hot weather and cardiovascular disease.

Heart, July 13, 2006
Forbes, July 13, 2006

2. Narrow arterioles and venules (small arteries and veins) in the eye may predict the overall condition of your cardiovascular disease.

• Wider eye venules doubled the risk of death from coronary heart disease in men and woman aged 49 to 75.
• Narrower arterioles are associated with a 50 percent greater risk of death in women of the same age group.

Heart, July 13, 2006
Forbes, July 13, 2006

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