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Benefits
Healing the Heart – Dr. Erica Friedman, Chair of the Department of Health and Nutrition Sciences at New York’s Brooklyn College. One of the first non-psychologists to study the health benefits of animal companions. Recently examined people who had suffered from Arrhythmia – irregular heartbeats- after heart attacks’. These men and women, all participants in a national clinical trial, Friedman found that patients with an animal companion were more likely to be alive after one year, and that patients who had a dog were 8.6 times more likely to survive the year than those without animals. |
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