Optimistic attitude can reduce risk of heart attack or even death, so the results of a new study. Several studies conducted by researchers from the University of Pittsburgh have found, people who have joy and hope tend to be in a better condition than those who live with a view of the more dismal. Studies that have been tracking more than 97,000 American women who have entered menopause period for more than eight years, the largest study to date on the impact of positive thinking on health.

All women who participated in the study completed a survey, entering a variety of studies to assess their level of optimism and the level of cynicism and hostility in general. After following the development of them for eight years, compared with the pessimistic, optimistic people who have a risk of 9 percent lower heart attack and exposed to 14 percent lower likelihood of death.

"Most evidence shows that negative level is higher and the ongoing danger to health," says Dr Hilary A Tindle, specialist in the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and main author of the study reports.

Although the research team said that it is not clear why people are more optimistic healthy, the study shows that optimistic people have a little more likely to become depressed and melampiaskannya on the cigarette. At the same time, optimistic person who looks younger and have higher education levels and greater revenue.

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Pain in the chest can be symptoms of heart disease. This pain is caused, among others, the imbalance between demand and supply of oxygen to the heart muscle. For example, the increased oxygen needs, but the entry of oxygen is too low. Sometimes the pain occurs while you're blow anger, or fatigue due to exercise are too heavy.

When you need to see?

• When the chest pain come without cause. For example, while you relax, such as being sit-sit or lie relaxed.

• Location pain in the chest on the left or mid chest. It seems like things are pressed, the pin needle, such as heat or burn.

• Pain lasts long enough, more than 10 minutes.

What should you do?

Immediately check themselves to see a doctor. Because, all you feel is the earlier signs of coronary heart disease. Usually, the more serious disease, chest pain that you experience will last the longer. When the pain attacks can be accompanied by cold sweat, anxiety, cold hands and feet, to the strain-strain, decreased consciousness, or fainting. If you do not immediately get medical help, this case could invite death. Heart disease can be detected early through the heart of the examination with the test (the test is done with the run on the Treadmill, and blood pressure were measured, as well as pulse).

For prevention: especially if you include high-risk group of heart disease, that is you are a heavy smoker, in your family have found people with heart disease or diabetes, do this test once a year in the hospital or specialist clinic heart.

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