The research shows that watching TV can reduce the heart, risks for stroke

The researchers say that watching television (TV) for no more than an hour a day can reduce the risk of heart attack, stroke and other blood vessel diseases, otherwise known as atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD)

They say this occurs among people with different genetic risk levels for type 2 diabetes.

This is contained in a report published in the Journal of American Heart Association entitled: “Genetic susceptibility to type 2 diabetes, television vision and the risk of atherosclerotic cardiovascular diseases.” “

The researchers, led by Mengyao Wang, were drawn by the School of Public Health, the University of Hong Kong and Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge.

The experts said that ASCVD is caused by the accumulation of plaque in the arterial walls and refers to conditions that include cardiac diseases, strokes and disease of the peripheral artery.

The disease of the peripheral artery narrows the arteries, reduces the blood flow to the arms or legs.

These conditions can lead to serious consequences, such as the quality of compromised life, bypass surgical interventions, stenting procedures (insertion of the small tube tube in the blocked artery), amputations and premature death.

The researchers discovered that about 21 % of interviewees reported having seen the TV one hour or less per day, while 79 % reported two or more hours a day of time of observation of the TV.

They discovered that compared to watching TV for an hour or less a day, spending two hours or more every day in front of the TV was associated with a 12 % higher risk than ASCVD.

However, this is regardless of the genetic risk for type 2 diabetes.

Their assessments indicated that participants with type 2 type 2 genetic risk risk did not have a greater risk of developing ASCVD as long as the TV vision was limited to one hour or not per day.

Reacting to the report, Damon Swift said: “These results are added to the tests that session time can represent a potential intervention tool to improve health in people in general and specifically for high -risk people for type 2 diabetes

“This is particularly important because people with type 2 diabetes are at risk of cardiovascular disease compared to those who do not have diabetes.”

“Targeted interventions could help people who sit for long periods of time in their homes or workplaces,” said Swift.

Swift is the president, the physical activity committee of the American Heart Association and associate professor at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, in Virginia.

The study was based on champions of 346,916 British white people from the United Kingdom Biobank.

They had a weighted polygenic risk score for type 2 diabetes, calculated on the basis of 138 genetic variants associated with type 2 diabetes.

The time spent watching TV among the champion’s population was self-defined and classified in less than 1 hour a day and more than 2 hours a day.

A polygian risk score tells how someone’s risk of disease confronts others with a different genetic makeup.

1. In the meantime, Mengyao and the research team have recognized that the study was limited by some variables, including the television view time that was based on car information -segnate.

“There is the possibility of reporting a prejudice, such as false relationships or underestimation of the time of vision of television due to social wishes,” they said. (Nan)