Ridiculous Study of the Week: Low Heart Rate
A recent study in JAMA Psychiatry suggests low resting heart rate—that is, less than or equal to 60 beats per minute—is associated with antisocial behavior and may be a strong predictor of which young men are more likely to commit violent crimes later in life. And the media is all over this. Anybody with any common sense out there buy this? Well, if you do, then it’s time we start rounding up those marathon runners and cross fitters They are bound to do some bad things. Be on the look out.
Or………….. The recent BS study in an FP journal that concluded if you take a statin for your high cholesterol, you have a 1 in 255 chance of developing diabetes therefore statins cause diabetes!!
Or……. Perhaps (barring a severe genetic based hyperlipidemia) it means if you have a tendency to eat s**t you also eat a lot of sweet s**t therefore you have a risk of obesity and diabetes!!!
That’s statistics for you. Kurt
At 61 years old and dependent on a walker, I have a resting heart rate in the high forties to low fifties. I can only infer that my four years in the USMC back in the late seventies has carried over. My antisocial behavior must be waiting to show up. Unless it’s becoming a physician?
I remember that when he was President, Jimmy Carter had a pulse of 48 because he ran a lot. I guess that’s a risk factor for melanoma too!
Do psychiatrists check vital signs when their staff register patients? Just asking.
I’m sure the local city Fire and Police departments we do physicals for would like to know their departments are full of potential criminals…
Sounds like a study I read years ago that found that the most dangerous wife beaters actually had their HR & BP go down when they got mad, instead of up. How you can infer this from resting HR, though, I can’t imagine.
Maybe marathon runners are all just bad people (frankly, I’ve suspected this for a long time, but never seen any confirmation, but that’s a different discussion…). If so, then doughnuts and bedrest ought to do the world good.