from American Heart Association journal, Circulation
If taking one pill a day would help you avoid
heart disease, would you? An astounding
study from the American Heart Association
journal, Circulation suggests one in three of
us would risk a shorter life rather than take
just one pill a day. The study, from the
University of California San Francisco and
University of North Carolina surveyed a
thousand people with an average age of
fifty. More than eight percent were willing
to trade as much as two years of life to avoid
a daily pill for cardiovascular disease.
Another twenty-one percent would trade
between a week and a year of their lives.
The survey questions were hypothetical and
the answers came after being assured there
would be no cost—or side effects. If you’re
keeping track, that leaves about seventy
percent of us unwilling to give up any weeks
or years just to avoid a daily pill.