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Kids who spend a lot of time in front of TV, they have narrow arteries in eyes which show the Heart risk later in life.
It is said that eyes are the windows of the soul. On April 20, 2011 a research in Australia has shown that 6 and 7 years old children who spend a lot time in front of TV have narrow arteries in the back of their eyes as compare to those who do not watch much TV and try to create a link between total time of watching TV and Retinal arteries in children.
The children who spend more time in outdoor games, they have wider eye arteries.
US scientists have found why heart attacks and strokes occur in the early hours most often.
According to the Emory University researchers daily rhythms in the activity of those cells which line blood vessels can be the key factor in this connection.
The researchers found that these cells activity was at its lowest during the early hours of the morning.
The study has been presented to an American Heart Association conference and it seems to suggest that low cells activity make c less able to relax and it raises the risk of problems.
Endothelial progenitor cells from the bone marrow are considered playing an important role in maintaining the lining of the blood vessels.
