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From: Pet Ownership, Social Support, and One-Year Survival After Acute Myocardial Infarction in the Cardiac Arrhythmia Suppression Trial. Friedmann E, Thomas SA. 1995. Am J Cardiol 76:1213-1217. - Significance: These data confirm and extend previous findings relating dog ownership to increased survival among patients with myocardial infarction, while controlling for cat ownership, physiologic status, and other psychosocial factors, including social support. - It was previously suggested that healthier people are more likely to own pets, thus confounding the relationship between pet ownership and survival following a heart attack. However, in this study, there is no evidence that differences in physiologic status between dog owners and non-dog owners were responsible for the increased survival among dog owners. The physiologic profile of dog owners was comparable to that of non-dog owners. |