From: New York Magazine
Procrastination Is Not Great for Your Heart
New York Magazine:
People who are self-admitted procrastinators are also more likely to have heart disease, according to a study published online this week in the Journal of Behavioral Medicine.Fuschia M. Sirois of Bishop’s University in Quebec, who led the research, gave a group of people with hypertension and cardiovascular disease and a group of healthy people a variety of questionnaires, including one designed to measure their proclivity toward putting things off. In the end, she found that the people with heart disease were more likely than the healthy people to admit to behaviors that indicated procrastination, agreeing more strongly with statements like, “I am continually saying I’ll do it tomorrow.”
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