Cat Ownership Correlated With Heart Health

Ant tips us to a story making the rounds lately, based on reporting a couple of weeks old, that owning a cat could cut your heart attack risk by one third. No such effect was seen from dog ownership, but the researchers say that could be because there weren't enough dog owners in the study population to provide meaningful statistics. The study: "...analyzed data on 4,435 Americans, aged 30 to 75, who took part in the federal government's second National Health and Nutrition Examination Study, which ran from 1976-1980. According to the data in the survey, 2,435 of the participants either owned a cat or had owned a cat in the past, while the remaining 2,000 had never done so. [The] team then tracked rates of death from all causes, including heart and stroke. Cat owners 'appeared to have a lower rate of dying from heart attacks' over 10 years of follow-up compared to feline-free folk..."

Comments

Re:This is one of those things that I love

[bvimo]

>I didn't see if kissing the cat had anything to do with the results either.

I kiss my GF's pussy all the time, does that help?

Re:Global Warming Correlated with Pirate Number

[Anonymous Coward]

Thanks for betraying your own ignorance about statistics while trying to show how you thought others were ignorant. You are aware of the serious academic discipline of statistics, aren't you? You are aware that the study went on for years and accounted for all sorts of other factors trying to isolate the effect that cat ownership had by itself, correct? Or do you just get a thrill out of being self-righteous?

Re:Ownership??

[TheRealMindChild]

I can't agree with you. If my dog runs away, and I can't find him, and I didn't really like him anyway, meh... who cares. Also, if dog won't quit farting and has a bad cough, for a pittance, I can send that bugger to a wormy grave. Now, imagine doing these with a little girl...

Re:Lies, Damn Lies And Statistics

[blcamp]

Non-smokers also get cancer, genius.