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Negative Effects of Heart Attack Curbed With Good Social Support
From cell death to depressive symptoms to regulation of the heart, mice that lived with a partner after a heart attack suffered less damage than did similar mice that were housed alone.
"The results really get at the profound influence that the social environment can have on health after cardiac arrest," said Greg Norman of Ohio State University (OSU).
Mice in the study showed damages to the regulation of their heart rate within 24 hours of cardiac arrest. But those mice that lived with a partner showed significantly less damage, and had more normal control of heart rate variability.
"This is another way that social interaction is able to improve health functioning after a heart attack," said Norman.
For the study, male mice were either housed alone or with a female mouse for two weeks. Mice were implanted with a device, similar to an ECG in humans that transmitted data on heart rate variability and other heart functions.
After two weeks, some of the mice underwent a surgically induced heart attack, while others were placed in a control group that did not undergo cardiac arrest.
The mice that had the heart attack were resuscitated. These mice were then tested 24 hours, three days or seven days after the heart attack on various measures of health.
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