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Job strain boosts heart attack risk by 23 percent: Lancet study

Workers who suffer job strain are 23-percent more likely to have a heart attack than stress-free counterparts, but the risk is far smaller than smoking or a sedentary lifestyle, a large study published in The Lancet on Friday says. “Job strain is asociated with a small, but consistent, increased risk…

Physical inactivity kills 5 million a year: report

PARIS — A third of the world’s adults are physically inactive, and the couch potato lifestyle kills about five million people every year, experts said in the medical journal The Lancet on Wednesday. “Roughly three of every 10 individuals aged 15 years or older — about 1.5 billion people —…

Survival odds better with bypass than angioplasty: study

Patients who undergo bypass surgery for heart disease have better long-term survival rates than those who opt for less invasive procedures like angioplasty, a major US study showed on Tuesday. The study looked at data from 190,000 US patients and found that those who had bypass surgery had a lower…