Mark McM
11-08-2017, 04:23 PM
Many of us here have low resting heart rates after years of aerobic exercise (cycling). Now they are finding out that low resting heart rates are correlated to anti-social behavior and violent crime:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/the-filter/11863460/Low-resting-heart-rate-linked-to-future-violent-or-anti-social-behaviour.html
New research has suggested that boys with lower resting heart rates during childhood and their teenage years are more likely to grow up into less than law-abiding citizens.
Previous studies have linked low heart rates with anti-social behaviour in adolescents, and it has been theorised that those with slower heart rates place themselves in dangerous and even criminal situations because their bodies require more stimulation to feel excited or thrilled. An additional reason may be that their bodies fail to physically detect danger as effectively as their peers.
Antti Latvala, of the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm and the University of Helsinki in Finland, led the latest study. Monitoring 710,000 participants born between 1958 and 1991, Latvala followed the social progress of these individuals using records that spanned up to 36 years.
Compared with young men who had the highest resting heart rates (in excess of 83 beats per minute), those with the lowest heart rates (under 60 beats per minute) were 39 per cent more likely to commit and subsequently be convicted of a violent crime.
I've had a low resting heart rate all my life. In my teens, it was measured as low as 38 bpm. Since I haven't been leading a life of violent crime thus far, I have to wonder if I haven't been living up to my potential?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/the-filter/11863460/Low-resting-heart-rate-linked-to-future-violent-or-anti-social-behaviour.html
New research has suggested that boys with lower resting heart rates during childhood and their teenage years are more likely to grow up into less than law-abiding citizens.
Previous studies have linked low heart rates with anti-social behaviour in adolescents, and it has been theorised that those with slower heart rates place themselves in dangerous and even criminal situations because their bodies require more stimulation to feel excited or thrilled. An additional reason may be that their bodies fail to physically detect danger as effectively as their peers.
Antti Latvala, of the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm and the University of Helsinki in Finland, led the latest study. Monitoring 710,000 participants born between 1958 and 1991, Latvala followed the social progress of these individuals using records that spanned up to 36 years.
Compared with young men who had the highest resting heart rates (in excess of 83 beats per minute), those with the lowest heart rates (under 60 beats per minute) were 39 per cent more likely to commit and subsequently be convicted of a violent crime.
I've had a low resting heart rate all my life. In my teens, it was measured as low as 38 bpm. Since I haven't been leading a life of violent crime thus far, I have to wonder if I haven't been living up to my potential?