The one-time you joke about the disease flu. According to a latest research, people who are often exposed to flu will fell ill the greater the risk of stroke or heart attack.

As wrote Health24, Monday (10/12/2007), some researchers in the UK has issued a statement that people who frequently experience interference in the respiratory tract will easier heart disease or stroke.

Studies have been published through the European Heart Journal has found evidence that people who frequently experience disruption of flu each year will affect the working heart. The team that led by Professor Tom Meade of the London School has been doing studies and analysis using the sample of two million people.

This study describes, heart attack and stroke suffered the most during the winter increase. But the scientific reason of relationship or interference with respiratory tract infections both disease risk are still lacking. However, a study led by Meade also received support from several earlier studies that show the relationship between infections with a heart attack.

“According to my vision, respiratory tract infections in will only open the blood clotting system and eventually will spread to all the other body. This is an inflammatory process or infection,” said Meade.

But the number of people who get heart attacks and death can be prevented by proactive treatment. However, Meade is also explained, the channel interference is likely to cause digestive heart attack and stroke only acute bronchitis and pneumonia.

Seeing the risk incurred, at this time many of the vaccination to prevent themselves from heart disease. Even the UK and the United States has program it, although some people do not get it.

“We are expecting them (the people with the heart) to protect themselves from flu disease,” said Mike Knapton of the British Heart Foundation.