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.

Studies with dogs have found that the people who care have lower values of arterial tension compared to those who do not. When you have made similar studies, with women, it has been demonstrated that the presence of a dog is more important in the reduction of the blood pressure that the presence of friends. Other researchers have discovered that the presence of a dog, while the children are examined by a doctor, makes your heart rate, arterial tension and anxiety are lower than when the animal is absent.

If all these data do not convinced perhaps you interested to know that the stock brokers who have cats or dogs in their offices while working, show smaller increases in your blood when performing activities stressful, compared with those who have no pets near. In addition people suffering from chronic diseases reported that their pets are able to feel the attacks before they occur, more when they have been trained to do this, capacity that used to warn the owner of the event that will come, giving time to prepare for the same.

It seems that the pets, despite the responsibilities that accompany them, bring more benefits of that we suspect.