Blood sugar, gridlock, and diplomas.Studies are unearthing some destructive links to your heart. It's already known that diabetes doubles the risk of cardiovascular disease Cardiovascular disease Disease that affects the heart and blood vessels. Mentioned in: Lipoproteins Test cardiovascular disease . But new research points a finger at high blood sugar itself--even in people without diabetes--as a risk factor. Nondiabetics with elevated blood-sugar readings should consult their physicians about ways to bring those numbers down with a sound diet and exercise plan. A second way to reduce your heart attack risk is to avoid traffic jams. It's not only the aggravation Any circumstances surrounding the commission of a crime that increase its seriousness or add to its injurious consequences. Such circumstances are not essential elements of the crime but go above and beyond them. of gridlock Gridlock A government, business or institution's inability to function at a normal level due either to complex or conflicting procedures within the administrative framework or to impending change in the business. , it may be the air pollution as well. Sitting in traffic for as little as an hour almost triples your risk of suffering a heart attack within the following few days. Third, people who haven't graduated from high school are two-and-a-half times more likely to die from heart disease as those with more education. Tufts University Tufts University, main campus at Medford, Mass.; coeducational; chartered 1852 by Universalists as a college for men. It became a university in 1955. Jackson College, formerly a coordinate undergraduate college for women, merged with the College of Liberal Arts in Health and Nutrition Letter |
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