9.4 link between heart health and education

4. Link between Heart Health and Education

A Directions: You will hear a passage about the link between heart disease and

education. While listening for the first time, write down some key words in the notes

column.

B Directions: Listen the passage again and decide whether the following

statements are true or false.

1) Less educated people tend to have more heart attacks and other so-called

cardiovascular events. ( T )

2) The correlation between more education and fewer heart attacks, strokes, and other

cardiovascular events was strongest among women in richer countries. ( F )

3) Educated people in lower- and middle-income countries tend to avoid risky

behaviors like smoking, or they eat better, or get better medical care. ( F )

4) Women in Latin America are increasingly targeted by tobacco companies. (T )

5) More educated women in lower- and middle-class countries are more likely to get

better positions with health care insurances. (F )

Tapescript

Numerous studies have found a connection between education and the risk of

heart disease and stroke. More educated people tend to have fewer heart attacks and

other so-called cardiovascular events. But new research finds that the correlation

doesn't apply everywhere.

Previous studies have been done almost entirely in richer, industrialized

countries. Abhinav Goyal of Emory University in Atlanta wanted to see if that link

between heart disease and education applied in low- and middle-income countries.

"So what we found is that there is a relationship between education level and

cardiovascular events that differs both in terms of gender and in terms of world