Middle Aged People With Long-lived Parents Tend To Have Lower Risk Of Heart Disease

A new US study suggests that middle aged people born of parents where one or both live to be 85 or more have a lower risk of heart disease.The study is published in the Archives of Internal Medicine.Dr Dellara F. Terry from the University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts and colleagues looked at data on over 1,500 members of the Framingham Heart Study (FHS). The FHS contains risk factor data on cardiovascular and other chronic diseases covering several generations of residents in Framingham, Massachussets from 1948 to the present day. All the participants' parents were members of the FHS and either lived to be 85 or more, or died before 1st of January 2005.In this longitudinal study Dr Terry and colleagues looked at two batches of data, one from the 1970s and the other from the 1980s, and analyzed how the variables had changed over time.
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