Show Warns Y Young Men of Big Citi Cities s Not Notto to Overtax Hearts Beware Too Much l Work Food Too Little Exercise I I Atlantic City N. N J. J Warn J.-Warn- Warn Warning i ing to young professional and i business men who live in large cities work hard hand exercise exercise exer exer- cise else little eat too much and smoke too much appeared in inthe inthe inthe the report of Drs R. R Earle Glendy Samuel A. A Levine and Paul D. D White of Boston at the meeting here of the American Medical tion Heart Henrt disease before they are sixty sixty six six- ty years rears old is the Ule likely fate of such young Qung men More than one out of every hundred hundred hun hun- dred cases of heart disease disease 16 per percent cent occurs cent occurs in patients under forty years of age these physicians found Young men are much more frequent victims than young oung women in Uie Ule ratio of 24 to 1 Hoping to learn why so many young r ung men are falling victims to what has generally been considered a disease of old age the Ule Boston I physicians investigated the inheritance inheritance inheritance inherit inherit- I ance and living habits of ot a 0 group of ot young heart patients and compared compared com corn pared these with similar lt Information information orma- orma tion obtained from men and women of ot eighty ninety and one-hundred one years ears o of age Jews More Susceptible Relatively far more of ot the older people were of British race stock although the method of selection of ot this group for study and the time of ot immigration ma may have influenced this factor Jewish people are more susceptible to heart and blood vessel disease the study showed The old men and women had longer lived long lived r-lived ancestors than the young heart disease dis ease patients I These factors are beyond the control control control con con- I of the individual but living conditions conditions conditions con con- and habits which he can control evidently also play an important important im im- irn- irn part in causing development of heart diseases Country life for instance is not as hard on the heart as the Ule stresses of ot cit city life Nearly three-fourths three of the men and women past eighty years ears old lived in the country or small towns while nearly nine- nine tenths of the young heart patients lived in large cities The older persons all claimed to have been moderate caters a and n d while as the doctors pointed out they may have forgotten the hearty appetites of their youth their body build was generally generall lean as compared compared com corn pared to the heavy build of the young heart patients Smoking Plays Big nig Part Tart Over tenths nine-tenths of ot the older people people peo peo- pie exercised considerably till well past middle age The young oung heart patients had many of them been strenuously athletic in their youth but only few continued to exercise regularly A striking difference between the two groups was found In their use of ot tobacco and this together with other evidence of the effect of ot tobacco co the Boston physicians believe suggests that smoking plays an Important Important important Im im- Im- Im part A little over half haIt the theold theold theold old group were smokers but only a few tew were heavy smokers Over tenths nine-tenths of the young group group were smokers more than half hall of them hea heavy vy smokers The two groups were more alike in their use of ot alcohol A surprising finding was that severe infectious disease generally supposed to Impose impose impose im im- Im- Im pose considerable strain on the heart had occurred with the exception exception ex ex- of diphtheria and pneumonia nia more frequently in the older group than the young group Even rheumatic fever and occurred occurred occurred oc oc- oc- oc less frequently in hi the younger young young- er group The younger group however however however how how- ever had more surgical operations than the older Irregular and few hours of sleep and nervous sensitiveness and nervous nervous nerv nerve ous strain were other conditions found much more frequently in the young group which may have contributed contributed contributed con con- to the early appearance of serious heart disease |