Fonts can reveal heart disease

The early signs of heart disease can be seen on your writing, a British expert said. This view is considered by many people to see the disease through the palm of the hand.

Research conducted at Poole Hospital, England was published at the recent workshop of the Society International Graphonomics in Melbourne, Australia.

Writing expert Christina Strang says she analyzed the writing of more than 100 people in the early 60s, including 61 patients at the hospital's cardiology department. She also analyzed the handwriting of 41 people who had never been diagnosed with heart disease.

(Photo: iStockphoto) Strang said previous studies have focused on the effects of glycemic diseases such as Parkinson's, Huntington's and Alzheimer's disease. However, she also wanted to know if heart disease left a mark on the nib.

Strang analyzed many different characteristics of exaggerated writing patterns, such as a pause in text, malformed " o " words and break points - where the pen paused when a stroke was struck. She found that people in the cardiology department had a higher percentage of rest points compared to the control group, especially in the upper middle area of ​​the characters 'a', 'e' and 'o' .

Strang also acknowledges that much of this research has not been very scientific, and she will try to take it more seriously.

However, some experts say this article has little hope to be published in a clinical journal."I'm afraid it won't pass the reliability test," said Perminder Sachdev, a psychiatrist at the University of New South Wales.

He argued that Strang failed to give any explanation for his findings. "Are the patients more tired and therefore have more resting points while writing," he said.

Thuan An