WO Magazine Fall 2015 | Page 27

BY: JULIE LEPP Heads up! Real Science-y Bit Here... Researchers who followed 369 heart attack survivors in the Cardiac Arrhythmia Suppression Trial found that dog owners had only a one percent chance of dying within a year, compared with a seven percent chance for subjects who didn’t have a dog. A newer study, from 2009, found that people who o ݹ