Your Dog will help you live a longer and healthier life

Your Dog will help you live a longer and healthier life

As per new studies conducted by reputed international firms your dog will help you to live long. Do not get too angry at that new pup who piddled on the carpet or chewed up your favorite slippers.

In the long term, that scamp will help you live a longer and healthier life.

A pair of new reports found that pet owners have a lower risk of premature death than individuals without canine companionship, especially when it comes to dying from a heart attack or stroke.

The advantage is most pronounced in people with existing heart issues. Dog owners had a 65% decreased risk of death following a heart attack and a 31% decreased risk of death from cardiovascular disease, the researchers said.

“Individuals who had a heart attack before getting a puppy had even more reduction in mortality,” said lead author Dr. Caroline Kramer, an assistant professor of medicine at the University of Toronto, Canada.

That analysis was backed up with another Swedish study, which found that heart attack and stroke victims who have dogs have a lower chance of dying, especially if they live alone.

Having a puppy reduced a heart attack patient’s risk of death by 33% if they live alone, and 15% if they reside with a spouse or child, based on data from the Swedish National Patient Register.

Likewise, death risk for dog-owning stroke survivors was 27% lower if they live alone and 12% lower for people living with somebody, the Swedish researchers discovered.

The two reports were published Oct. 8 at the journal Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes.

Part of this benefit is likely because of the physical activity that comes with having a puppy, Kramer said.

Kramer undertook the study after noticing changes in her own behavior after she embraced her own dog, a miniature schnauzer named Romeo.

“At the time when I began work on this, I had had my dog for a year and I noticed I was walking way more,” Kramer said. “There’s a whole lot of evidence that those who have dogs walkway more. Their degree of bodily exercise is far more.”

Kramer and her colleagues examined data for over 3.8 million people obtained from 10 individual studies and concluded that owning a puppy is related to a long-term lower risk of premature death.

1 study found that”the act of petting a dog reduces blood pressure as much as medication to deal with hypertension,” Kramer said.

In the Swedish study, Dr. Mwenya Mubanga of Uppsala University and her colleagues combed their country’s patient database for all people aged 40 to 85 who had had a heart attack or stroke from 2001 through 2012.

Kramer and her colleagues examined data for over 3.8 million people taken from 10 individual studies and concluded that owning a puppy is related to a long-term lower risk of premature death.

1 study found that”the act of petting a dog reduces blood pressure as much as medication to deal with hypertension,” Kramer said.

In the Swedish study, Dr. Mwenya Mubanga of Uppsala University and her colleagues combed their country’s patient database for all people aged 40 to 85 who had had a heart attack or stroke from 2001 through 2012.

The researchers identified over 181,000 heart attack sufferers, about 6 percent of whom owned a puppy, and almost 155,000 stroke survivors, of whom 5% owned a puppy.

Everyone who owned a puppy had a reduced risk of death compared to people with no dog, but that threat was reduced in people who lived alone versus those living with another individual, the researchers discovered.

“My hypothesis is that the largest driver of this is what dog ownership does for one’s mental health,” said Kazi, who wrote an accompanying editorial concerning the two new reports.

Isolation and loneliness have been linked to poor heart health effects, Kazi said, and having a dog seems to facilitate a person’s solitude enough to get a real benefit.

“People living by themselves appeared to have the bigger benefit, which goes in line with the fact that it is the companionship driving a huge chunk of the advantage,” Kazi said.

“If you have a dog, it doesn’t matter how tired you are or how chilly it’s, you still need to go for a stroll. That’s what you need to do,” Kazi said. Latest report and sources: WebMD.com