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Healthy Pets
Although many pet owners say that their animals makes them feel better, there are some skeptics, however there is research that demonstrate the positive impact that have pets in the health.
Have a dog increases the survival rates of the people who have suffered a heart attack. It also increases the proportion of people who survive after hospitalization caused by a heart problem. There are studies that claim that only 6 percent of patients who had no pet survived, compared to 28 per cent of the people who did. The having a pet is one of many variables that influence the improvement in the levels of survival, but even a 2% 3% is a significant difference to the relatives of a patient, in addition the pets reduces the risk of suffering a heart attack, according to other sources.
Another discovery of medical research claims that people with pets have levels of cholesterol and triglycerides minors, compared with those who do not live with pets, even when they have the same weight, the same diet and smoke. Read the rest of this entry »