Birth during a recession raises risk of fatal cardiovascular disease at advanced age

Monday, August 11, 2008 - 10:14 in Health & Medicine

People who suffer from cardiovascular diseases at advanced ages may have reason to suspect that the cause of their illness lies far away... around the date of their birth. A team of European researchers reports that if economic conditions at the time of birth were bad, then this leads to a higher risk of cardiovascular mortality much later in life.

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