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Heart attack risks globally mostly the same 30 August 2004 by Richard Conan-Davies Medical researchers from McMaster Univeristy in Canada have shown 9 important factors that contribute to heart attacks. cigarette smoking and an abnormal ratio of blood lipids (Apolipoprotein B/Apolipoprotein A-1), high blood pressure, diabetes, abdominal obesity, stress, a lack of daily consumption of fruits and vegetables and a lack of daily exercise. Regular consumption of small amounts of alcohol was also found to be modestly protective. Worldwide, collectively, these nine factors predict the risk of a heart attack. more than 90 per cent of the time. Studies show the heart is likely to suffer due to the same reasons no matter where in the world you live. Dr. Salim Yusuf, a professor of medicine who led the study of 29,000 people in 52 countries explained that "These risk factors appear to predict the majority of the risk in virtually every region, every ethnic group, in men and women and in the old and the young," he went further to suggest "that the message of preventing cardiovascular disease can be quite simple and, generally, similar across the world, after taking into account economic and cultural differences. "

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