A new B.C.-led study is linking your education status to improved heart health.
Conducted by SFU professor and St. Paul’s Hospital cardiovascular research chair Dr. Scott Lear, the study says there is a direct link between a person’s socioeconomic status and their susceptibility to heart attacks and strokes.
“How much money you have tends to be a strong predictor of health outcomes, but education seems to be a far more robust measure to use across countries,” Lear said in a release.
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