After you had a heart attack, chasing blondes, drinking until three in the morning, then stopping on the way home for a Big Mac is not going to help you recover.
If you had any doubts about this , a major study has just announced that if you follow your doctor’s advice instead of being stupid, you will live longer.
The study states that “Heart failure patients who followed doctor’s advice for self-care (such as taking medications, monitoring and interpreting symptoms, eating a low-sodium diet, and exercising) showed lower levels of myocardial stress and systemic inflammation, thought to be associated with greater risk of mortality, “
No, I am not making this up. This was a real study conducted by the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing.
And the study, when you strip away all the fancy words, simply said, “You will live longer if after a heart attack, you follow your doctor’s advice.”
But putting it in plain English won’t get you many research grants. So of course the medical wordsmiths wowed us with this piece of prose:
“To the best of our knowledge, this is the first clinical investigation of the relationship between participant reported self-care and serum biomarkers of myocardial stress and systemic inflammation in persons with heart failure,”
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Quit chasing blondes, go home and take your medicine. Or otherwise you might die. Or as the medical wordsmiths say, you might have “a greater risk of mortality.”
And to think I can’t even get a grant for “The Environmental Impact of Gold Fish on a Self Contained Environment.”
University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing (2011, September 15). Heart failure: Doing what your doctor says works, new research suggests. ScienceDaily. Retrieved September 15, 2011, from http://www.sciencedaily.com /releases/2011/07/110713161830.htm