A new study examined how significant financial changes can affect your heart health. The research found that a loss of wealth can be associated with a risk of heart problems, while a financial increase is linked to lower risk.
Data examined 5,600 Americans above the age of 50 without heart problems from 1992-2016. During that time, the people’s financial wealth accumulation was followed. An increase in wealth was associated with a lower heart risk and a decrease was associated with a higher risk. The scientists in the study noted the policy implications of such a finding.
“Low wealth is a risk factor that can dynamically change over a person’s life and can influence a person’s cardiovascular health status,” said study author Dr. Muthiah Vaduganathan, from the division of cardiovascular medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, in Boston, “So, it’s a window of opportunity we have for an at-risk population. Buffering large changes in wealth should be an important focus for health policy moving ahead.”
So why does wealth affect heart health? “Decreases in wealth are associated with more stress, fewer healthy behaviors and less leisure time, all of which are associated with poorer cardiovascular health. It is possible that the inverse is true and may help to explain our study’s findings,” shared study author Dr. Andrew Sumarsono, from the University of Texas Southwestern’s division of hospital medicine.
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