The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-08-12
Warns Young Men
of Big Cities Not
toOvertax Hearts
Beware Too Much Work,
Food; Too Little Exercise

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to young professional and bust
ness men who live in large
cities, work hard, exercise little,
eat too much and smoke too
much appeared in the report of
Drs. R. Earle Glendy, Samuel
A. Levine and Paul D. White of
Boston at the meeting here Of
the American Medical associa-
ton.
Heart disease before they are SIX
ty years old is the likely fate of such
young men.
More than one out of every hun
dred cases of heart disease-1.6 per
cent-occurs in patients under forty
years of age, these physicians found.
Young men are much more frequent
victims than young women in the
ratio of "a to l.
Hoping to learn why so many
young men are falling victims to
what has generally been considered
disease of old age, the Boston
physicians investigated the inherit
ance and living habits of a group
of 100 young heart patients and COM
pared these with similar informa-
ton obtained from men and women
of eighty, ninety and one-hundred
years of age.
Jews More Susceptible.
Relatively far more of the older
people were of British race stock,
although the method of selection of
this group for study and the time of
immigration may have influenced
this factor. Jewish people are more
susceptible to heart and blood vessel
disease, the study showed. The old
men and women had longer-lived
ancestors than the young heart dis
ease patients.
These factors are beyond the con-
troll of the individual, but living con-
ditions and habits which he can
control evidently also play an i'm
portant part in causing development
of heart diseases.
Country life, for instance, is not
as hard on the heart as the stresses
of city life. Nearly three-fourths of
the men and women past eighty
years old lived in the country or
small towns, while nearly nine
tenths of the young heart patients
lived in large cities.
The older persons all claimed to
have been moderate eaters n d
while, as the doctors pointed out
they may have forgotten the hearty
appetites of their youth their body
build was generally lean as COM
pared to the heavy build of the
young heart patients.
Smoking Plays Big Part.
Over nine-tenths of the older peo-
pie exercised considerably till well
past middle age. The young heart
patients had many of them been
strenuously athletic in their youth
but only few continued to exercise
regularly.
A striking difference between the
two groups was found in their use
of tobacco, and this together with
other evidence of the effect of tobac-
co, the Boston physicians believe,
| suggests that smoking plays an inn
portant part. A little over half the
old group were smokers but only
a few were heavy smokers. Over
nine-tenths of the young group were
smokers, more than half of them
| heavy smokers.
The two groups were more alike
in their use of alcohol. A surprising
finding was that severe infectious
disease, generally supposed to inn
pose considerable strain on the
heart, had occurred, with the ex-
ception of diphtheria and pneumo-
MIA, more frequently in the older
F! group than the young group.
Irregular and few hours of sleep
and nervous sensitiveness and nerv-
Gus strain were other conditions
found much more frequently in the
young group which may have con-
tributed to the early appearance of
serious heart disease.