A Cat Can Help to Prevent Stress, Anxiety and Even a Heart Attack in Humans
A study in the United States for ten years with more than 4000 people regarding the potential benefits of human-animal interaction reached a conclusion very interesting: relieving stress that pets provide, i.e. which has a protective effect on the circulatory system.Having a cat as a company can reduce the risk of a myocardial infarction. According to a recent investigation, these animals not only give affection, companionship and fun to those who live with them: a cat at home helps protect the heart of its owner and reduce by almost one third the risk of suffering a heart attack, Compared with those without cats.
While this study did not mention whether the cohabitation with dogs may have the same benefit this may be because in the investigation probably had not participated enough owners of dogs like to draw firm conclusions.
The study was based on an analysis of the second National Health Survey and Nutrition United States, conducted between 1976 and 1980. According to investigators, 2,435 participants in this survey had a cat or what they had, while the remaining 2,000 non coexisted with such pets.
In analyzing the rates of death from all causes, including cardiac and cerebrovascular was discovered a thirty percent reduction in the risk of heart attack, the owners of cats “in comparison with people who had no cats.” The magnitude of this effect was somewhat surprising, “according to sources of research.
Fight anxiety and stress: having a cat
“Stress and anxiety are related to cardiovascular events, and pets benefit relief inciting these factors,” according to lead author of the study, Dr. Adnan Qureshi. The magnitude of the protective effect makes it advisable to pets receive medical intervention as a low-cost and risk that could save or extend lives, according to Qureshi.
Curiously, the cats appear to relieve stress in humans, but these animals, in turn, may suffer from nervous tension. According to an expert study on animals at the School of Veterinary Studies, University of Edinburgh in the UK, cats can suffer from stress-related ailments like people.
The rivalry with another cat is the leading cause of feline anxiety, followed by a short distance from home or change the arrival of a new member to the family of the owner.
The British experts formed a panel of 55 cats, 31 of whom had bladder problems and the rest were completely healthy, all within the same house, and compared them with 125 other cats. In general, sick cats suffered more stress due to the presence of other cats in the house.
According to Dr. Danielle Moore-Gun, an expert in feline medicine at the University of Edinburgh, “the cats with diseases in the lower urinary tract are often a source of frustration for veterinarians and their owners, because most of cases have no apparent cause.” In these ailments can influence stress, according to the expert.
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