High-altitude living decreases the risk of heart disease

Monday, January 30, 2017 - 23:31 in Health & Medicine

This new research is the first to to link living at high altitudes and the risk to initially healthy people developing all the criteria that make up the metabolic syndrome, a combination of high blood pressure, sugar and cholesterol levels, as well as excess body fat around the waist, that contributes to serious health problems.

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