Washington, July 22 (ANI): A new research has revealed that a positive outlook on life might lower your risk of having a stroke.
"Our work suggests that people who expect the best things in life actively take steps to promote health," said Eric Kim, study lead author and a clinical psychology doctoral student at the University of Michigan.
The study is the first to discover a correlation between optimism and stroke.
Researchers analyzed self-reported stroke and psychological data from the ongoing Health and Retirement Study, collected between 2006 and 2008.
After following participants for only two years they found, "Optimism seems to have a swift impact on stroke," said Kim.
The protective effect of optimism may primarily be due to behavioural choices that people make, such as taking vitamins, eating a healthy diet and exercising, researchers said. However, some evidence suggests positive thinking might have a strictly biological impact as well.
The research has been published in Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association. (ANI)
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