Re: Study: Canadians Healthier Than Americans
- From: hrubin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Herman Rubin)
- Date: 1 Jun 2006 10:33:23 -0400
In article <1149084625.639779.166330@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Roman Bystrianyk <rbystrianyk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
MIKE STOBBE, "Study: Canadians Healthier Than Americans", Washington
Post, May 30, 2006,
Link:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/30/AR2006053000856.html
You can add Canadians to the list of foreigners who are healthier than
Americans. Americans are 42 percent more likely than Canadians to have
diabetes, 32 percent more likely to have high blood pressure, and 12
percent more likely to have arthritis, Harvard Medical School
researchers found. That is according to a survey in which American and
Canadian adults were asked over the telephone about their health.
The study comes less than a month after other researchers reported that
middle-aged, white Americans are much sicker than their counterparts in
England.
How much of this is due to genetics? Much, if not most,
of diabetes and hypertension is promoted by a hereditary
condition, resulting in "Syndrome X". If this does not
tell you much about it, this is because it is mainly
identified by its symptoms, and the biological mechanism
is essentially unknown.
This is why demographic figures are less than fully indicative.
If analyzed carefully, it is found that white Americans have a
higher proportion of East European, Mediterranean, Sub-Saharan
African, and American Indian genes than Canadians. All of these
groups are more prone to Syndrome X.
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