May 11, 2015, - 4:47 pm
Muslims w/ Multiple Wives 5 Times More Likely to Have This Dire Condition
Well, if you follow the Islamic prescription for multiple wives, you, too, can be a part of this prized demographic: heart disease sufferers. Research presented by a Saudi Muslim doctor at the 2015 Asian Pacific Society of Cardiology Congress showed that the risk and severity of heart disease increased among Muslim men as they increased the number of wives to which they were simultaneously married under Islamic law a/k/a sharia. Men with four wives were nearly five times more likely to suffer from heart disease. I guess Darwin would call this halal natural selection.
Polygamy increases the risk of heart disease by more than 4-fold, reveals research presented at the Asian Pacific Society of Cardiology Congress 2015 (APSC 2015) by Dr Amin Daoulah, a cardiologist at the King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The risk and severity of heart disease increased with the number of wives. . . .
The prospective multicentre observational study examined the relationship between the presence and severity of coronary artery disease (CAD) and number of wives. It included consecutive patients referred for coronary angiography at 5 hospitals in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. CAD was defined as more than 70% narrowing in a major epicardial blood vessel or more than 50% in the left main artery (called left main disease, LMD). Multivessel disease (MVD) was defined as more than one diseased vessel.
The 687 married men in the study had an average age of 59 years and 56% had diabetes, 57% had hypertension and 45% had a past history of CAD. Around two-thirds of the men had one wife (68%) while 19% had 2 wives, 10% had 3 wives and 3% had 4 wives. There were significant baseline differences according to the number of wives. Men with more than 1 wife were more likely to be older, live in a rural area, have a higher income and have a history of coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG).
Dr Daoulah said: “Polygamy may be more frequent in rural areas because it is more culturally acceptable and getting married at a young age is more common. Also, in the regions that we studied, there was a higher percentage of national citizens residing in rural areas compared to urban areas. Men with multiple wives have to be well supported financially, and although Saudis and Emirati people are supported by their governments, polygamists may need more than one income. They may therefore take on extra employment or have the added pressure of travelling daily to urban areas for higher paid work.”
The researchers found a significant association between number of wives and the presence of CAD, LMD and MVD. Risk increased with the number of wives (see figure). After adjusting for baseline differences, the researchers showed that men who practiced polygamy had a 4.6-fold increased risk of CAD, a 3.5-fold increased risk of LMD and a 2.6-fold elevated risk of MVD.
Dr Daoulah said: “We found an association between an increasing number of wives and the severity and number of coronary blockages. This could be because the need to provide and maintain separate households multiplies the financial burden and emotional expense. Each household must be treated fairly and equally, and it seems likely that the stress of doing that for several spouses and possibly several families of children is considerable.” . . .
Professor Michel Komajda, a past president of the ESC and course director of the ESC programme in Abu Dhabi, said: “We know that long-term stress in family life increases the risk of coronary heart disease (CHD)2 and it would be interesting to see what effect polygamy had on wives’ CHD risk.
Actually, why study that? We all know that in Islam, women are mere property and don’t matter. (And when they do “matter,” they utter the same “death to America, death to Jews” crap as their male counterparts.)
Note that the study was done only on Muslim men (and that Muslim incest and unhealthy inbreeding/inter-family marriage–very common among Muslims–and resulting increased congenital maladies and gene mutations are not considered in this study). While I oppose polygamy regardless of the religion, there is no evidence to suggest this correlation between polygamy and increased risk of heart disease is present in men of non-Muslim religions, such as Mormonism. (In those religions, an increased risk of heart disease might be present because they are constantly being chased by news media interested in vilifying Christians for beliefs and practices about which there is never a peep when practiced more predominantly by Muslims.)
Religion of peace . . . or religion of death via heart disease because of no peace? Seems it’s the latter.
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I don’t think any such medical studies have been done into mut’ah marriages–legalized prostitution arrangements under Islamic law primarily engaged in by Shi’ite men–and their effects on health. The world would benefit from more and more of these studies on how Islamic practices affect health (usually negatively).
We all know that Islam is deadly. Now, we know it is deadly both intentionally and unintentionally.
Wives give heart disease? Just one almost killed me.
John the infidel on May 11, 2015 at 5:25 pm