While lower intelligence scores — as reflected by low results on written or oral tests of IQ — have been associated with a raised risk of cardiovascular disease, no study has so far compared the relative strength of this association with other established risk factors such as obesity, smoking and high blood pressure.
Now, a large study funded by Britain’s Medical Research Council, which set out to gauge the relative importance of IQ alongside other risk factors, has found that lower intelligence scores were associated with higher rates of cardiovascular disease and total mortality at a greater level of magnitude than found with any other risk factor except smoking…
When the data were applied to a statistical model to quantify the associations of nine risk factors with cardiovascular mortality, results showed that the most important was cigarette smoking, followed by low IQ. Similar results were apparent when the health outcome was total mortality.
I wonder if the addition of firearms worship could predict the eventual Darwinian disappearance of right-wing nutballs?
That’s why Canadians live longer than Americans… (*runs and hides*)
Methinks he confuses correlation and causation.
and the picture has what to do with this story?
canadians, LOL
Seems to me the left-wing dingbats will be running for cover behind the right-wing nutballs when the crap hits the fan. The gun nuts can protect themselves. The liberal pacifists usually end up in mass graves. Read a history book and you’d learn this fact. Evolution favors the well prepared.
By the way. I don’t know why Dvorak lets you post on his website. The articles you pick are sometimes interesting but your inane comments are not. They reveal a certain level of ignorance and lack of intellectual acuity.
Oh your asking for it now.
Cue the nutcases.
Low IQ among strongest predictors of cardiovascular disease.
Obama supporters most affected.
@ tuscongeek,
Apparently Eideard believes that people who have enough balls to step forward to defend our rights granted by our forefathers, guaranteed by the Constitution and the Bill of Rights are ignorant. Even if they suffered from Alzheimer disease and died of Pneumonia which has absolutely nothing to do with the article. And yet obviously Eideard believes in freedom of speech and freedom of press. Kind of messed up point of view IMO.
Charlton Heston had Alzheimer, not cardiovascular disease. He probably had a higher IQ than the rest of the Hollywood elite, I can guarantee that.
Up your ass Eideard with your anti-gun message.
I wonder who is going protect Eideard’s Freedom of Speech if the firearms worshiping right-wing nutballs did disappear. Suggestions?
That would explain why the deep south has such a problem with cardiovascular disease.
#11 I wouldn’t use my gun to protect him.
#9 Bentjammin – Are you nuts? Why in their day Dick Nixon, Ron Reagan and Chuck Heston were known as the ‘three-stooges’. They’d show up at parties they weren’t invited to and pull low-brow pranks. Ordering $300.00 of pizza delivery in the name of the host, doing beer gongs while wearing beer goggles, and who can ever forget Dick’s take on the ‘pull-my-finger’ gag…….Good times….Good times.
I wonder who is going protect Eideard’s Freedom of Speech if the firearms worshiping right-wing nutballs did disappear. Suggestions?
He wouldn’t need any protection then …
#11
Well of course you go to the UN and have them write a strongly worded letter. Strongly worded letters are what “smart” people use. It’s the path to peace on earth. It worked with Tibet, Sudan, Congo, Iran… In Iraq Saddam started living in a hole after he got one of the UN letters. The letter works every time.
A correlates with B, therefore C. Thanks for the analysis.
That does it, I’m going to start packin’ The morons have won, I give….
After seeing this post, I worry for Eideard’s impending heart attack.
Your all doomed
It’s not really their low IQ per se that raises risk levels for cardiovascular disease. Rather, it’s the emotional distress of teasing and other forms of denigration, especially when certain radio personalities use the word “retard” as some sort of epithet to describe people he doesn’t like.
It’s really tragic 😉
It’s not such a hard stretch to understand this article. People who are not very smart don’t realize the importance of taking care of their health. So don’t do what they should and have more health problems.
No political aspect to it really.
So? Who knew stupid people eat lousy fast food? Where do you think all the ghetto rats eat out?
#12 Improbus
That would explain why the deep south has such a problem with cardiovascular disease.
If you have ever visited the South you’d know it is related to that damn fine fried chicken they make down there. Not only loaded with cholesterol but too damn tasty to push the plate away after one piece.
“I wonder if the addition of firearms worship could predict the eventual Darwinian disappearance of right-wing nutballs?”
Read your basic Darwin to learn that animals better equipped to defend themselves survived to breed.
RBG
14 The Monster’s Lawyer
Nobel Prize-winning, physicist Richard Feynman, founder of quantum mechanics, particpant in the Manhatten Project and Challenger inquiry must have been such a moron.
In his book, “Surely You’re Joking Mr. Feynman” almost half the book is devoted to his practical jokes.
RBG
How did you manage to conflate guns with the subject of this article? Fear and loathing of weapons is an indicator of retarded sexual and emotional development.
Actually, right wing firearm “worship” is more likely to predict the demise of left wing eff tards.
#21 “… especially when certain radio personalities use the word “retard” as some sort of epithet to describe people he doesn’t like.”
“It’s really tragic”
I agree Gary. But I didn’t know Rahm Emanuel was a radio personality.
Tragic indeed.
Well duh, what the hell did they think the human race evolved a brain for? – doing sudokus!?!
#24 too true! love that southern fried cooking… 🙂