After a heart attack, do not live near the highway!

New research shows that living near a major highway brings a significant risk to heart attack survivors, according to Top News.

This finding highlights the need to separate housing areas from areas with dense traffic density.

The study of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (Israel) showed that heart attack survivors who live less than 100 meters away from the highway have a 27% higher risk of dying within 10 years than those live at least 1,000 meters away.

The risk is reduced to 13% in people who live 200 to 1,000 meters from the highway.

'Living near the highway is associated with cardiovascular adverse results in people with heart disease , ' said Dr Murray Mittleman, the lead researcher.

"In addition to air pollution, exposure to noise can be a possible mechanism to reinforce this relevance," Murray Mittleman added.

The researchers looked at 3,547 heart attack survivors at the university's 64 community hospitals and health care centers.

They recorded 1,071 deaths within 10 years. Of these, 63% of patients died from cardiovascular disease, 12% from cancer and 4% from respiratory disease.

Mr. Mittleman and his colleagues analyzed factors such as personal characteristics, clinical characteristics and regional characteristics such as income and education.

Research results have been published in Circulation.