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CHICAGO, April 22 (Xinhua) – Skipping breakfast has a strong correlation with an increased risk of death from cardiovascular disease, according to a recently published study.
In a study published Monday in the American College of Cardiology, a group of researchers from the American University of Iowa and the China University of Science and Technology Wuhan concluded that people who did not take never had a 87% higher risk of death from cardiovascular disease. sickness than people who ate breakfast every day.
Using data from the National Health and Nutrition Survey, an annual survey of US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, investigators identified and badyzed data collected between 1988 and 1994 on 6,550 older Americans. from 40 to 75 years old.
This study is the first to badess the impact of breakfast on the risk of cardiovascular death, said Wei Bao, badistant professor of epidemiology at the University of Iowa and co- author of the study.
According to Bao, skipping breakfast was also a behavioral marker of healthy lifestyles, as those who never ate breakfast "were more likely to be overweight, heavy drinkers, old smoking and physically inactive, and had high cholesterol, low income and quality of diet. "
"Our study confirms the benefits of breakfast in promoting cardiovascular health," the researchers said.
Data published by the World Health Organization indicate that cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in the world, killing 17.9 million people a year and accounting for 31% of all deaths worldwide.
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