RESEARCHERS SAY BRITONS LESS STRESSED OUT THAN ITALIANS
November 1st, 2008
BY KEITH NUTHALL
DESPITE the binge drinking, fatty fast food, appalling public transport and bad weather, Britons have less medical hypertension than Italians, despite their sunshine, excellent diet, red wine and general supposed joie de vivre. That is the verdict of a European Union (EU)-funded research project IMMIDIET. Working with GPs in southwest London; Limburg in Belgium; and Abruzzo in Italy, its scientists examined 1,604 patients to look for hypertension, defined as 'systolic' blood pressure of at least 140mmHg or 'diastolic' blood pressure of at least ...
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