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TOKYO, Apr 05, 2005 (United Press International via COMTEX) -- Single men in their 30s and married men living alone in the same age group are prone to high blood pressure, a team of doctors in Japan has found.
In their study, the doctors found the number of men in their 30s who lived alone and suffered from high blood pressure was 3.6 times that of their counterparts who lived with their families, the Mainichi Shimbun reported Tuesday.
The number of men in their 40s living alone and suffering from high blood pressure was 1.5 times that of men living with their kin.
The doctors surmised that men living by themselves tend to eat insufficient quantities of vegetables and fruit while consuming excessive amounts of salt and not exercising enough.
The research team, led by Dr. Hiroyuki Hiraga of Chuden Hospital in Hiroshima, surveyed 1,570 male employees of a company in western Honshu. Among them, 217 men were living alone, including married men living apart from their families, while the other 1,353 were living with their families.
Copyright 2005 by United Press International.
