Your neighborhood
A study shows that people who live in lower-income neighborhoods are up to three times more likely to have heart disease. The researchers look at heart attacks over a 9-year period in people aged 45 to 64 living in four states.
“It’s very true and something you can’t do much about other than change where you live or spend time in places where the air quality isn’t so toxic,” says Malissa J. Wood, M.D., co-director of the Corrigan Women’s Heart Health Program at the Massachusetts General Hospital Heart Center.
