Public service announcement - cat owners have fewer heart attacks
by Marshall Brain
Good news for cat owners:
Study finds health benefits to owning cats
From the article:
The study, by researchers at the University of Minnesota, found that feline-less people were 30 to 40 percent more likely to die of cardiovascular disease than those with cats.
Yet dog owners had the same rate as non-owners. “No protective effect of dogs as domestic pets was observed,” said the study, which was presented Thursday at the International Stroke Conference in New Orleans.
It will be interesting to see what causes the effect.
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