Research conducted by Dr. Gideon Koren and Stan Van Uum of the University of Western Ontario, show that hair serve as biological market that can show chronic stress and heart attacks of individuals.
Researchers found that hair provides a time line on the anxieties that takes toll on a person’s heart. Life stresses like marital, financial and job problems were linked to increase risk of having cardiovascular disease like heat attack.
Koren and Uum noted that a person’s hair can provide an accurate assessment on the level of stress that a person experience prior to an acute health event like heart attack.
They did their study on 56 male adults who were admitted to Meir Medical Center in Kfar-Saba and who suffered hear attacks, while the control group comprising of 56 male patients were hospitalized for other health reasons than heart attack. They examined their hair samples and they found that first group had higher hair cortisol levels compared to the control group.
Based on the data gathered, they concluded that hair cortisol content is the strongest predictor of heart attack.
source: seepress
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