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Thursday, September 20, 2012

Blood type hype may be overblown - TODAY Health

Blood type hype may be overblown - TODAY Health
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  1. RAYLOKESeptember 20, 2012 at 4:19 AM

    OVERBLOWN HYPE ... But here's when you should worry: if you're overweight and have a sedentary lifestyle, high blood pressure, or high cholesterol. Those factors, Dr. Topol says, have a whopping effect on heart disease. Not your blood type.

    And while previous research has suggested that carrying type A or B blood may affect circulating levels of the "bad" LDL cholesterol and could be a risk factor for inflammation and heart disease, Dr. Topol says those connections are weak, too. "Linking a blood type with LDL cholesterol levels would be really important if it were established to be real--but that research is speculative, not accepted," he says.

    In the meantime, forget your blood type and focus on what you can change: your lifestyle. Start smiling more, for starters. Optimists were 50 percent less likely to suffer a heart attack or stroke when compared to pessimists, according to a recent review of research in Psychological Bulletin. Here are 4 More Small Ways to Help Your Heart.

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