Show warns young men of big cities not to overtax hearts beware too much work food too little exercise atlantic city N J warning to young professional prof essi and business men who live in large cities work hard exercise little eat cat too much and smoke too much appeared a p in the report of drs R earlo earle glendy samuel A levine and paul D white of boston at the mooting meeting here of the american medical association heart disease before they are arc sixty years old is the likely fate of such young men moro more than one out of every hundred 1 cases of heart disease 16 per cent occurs in patients under forty years of age these physicians found young men are arc much more fre frequent quint victims than young women in the ratio of 24 to 1 hoping to learn why so many young men are arc falling victims to what has generally been considered a disease of old age tho the boston physicians investigated the inherit once and living habits of a group of young heart patients and compared these with similar information obtained from nien men and women pf af eighty ninety and one hundred years of age jews more susceptible relatively for far more of the older people were of british raco race stock although the method of selection of this group for study and tho the time of immigration may have influenced this factor jewish people are more susceptible to heart and blood vessel disease the study showed the tha old men and women had longer lived ancestors than the young heart disease patients these factors are beyond the control of tho the individual but living conditions and habits which ho he can control evidently also play an important part in causing development of heart diseases country life for instance Is not as hard on the heart as the stresses of city life nearly three fourths of the men and women past eighty years old lived in tho the country or small towns wh while ie nearly nine tenths of the young heart patients lived in large cities the older persons all claimed to have been moderate eaters an and d while hale as the doctors pointed out they may have forgotten the hearty appetites of their youth their body build was generally lean as aa compared to the heavy build of the young heart patients smoking plays we big part over nine tenths of the older people pe 0 exercised considerably till well past middle age the young 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 tobacco and this together with other evidence of the effect of tobacco tho the boston physicians believe suggests that smoking plays an important part A little over halt half the old group were smokers but only a few were heavy smokers over ove r nine tenths of the young group were smokers more than half of them heavy smokers the two groups were more alike in their use of alcohol A surprising finding was that severe infectious disease generally supposed to im poso pose considerable strain on the heart had occurred with the exception ot of diphtheria and pneumonia more frequently in the older group than the young group even rheumatic lever fever and litts occurred less frequently in the younger group the younger group however had more surgical operations than the older irregular and few hours of sleep and nervous sensitiveness and nerv ous strain were other conditions found much more frequently in the young group which may have contributed tri buted to the early appearance of serious heart disease |