Handwriting predicts cardiac health?

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:59:05


A British scientist claims that the number of resting dots and breaks in handwriting can determine an individual's heart condition.

Cristina Strang analyzed the handwriting of over 100 people in their early 60s, with the focus on breaks in the writing, malformed 'O's, resting dots and where the pen rests momentarily in the middle of a pen stroke.

According to her presentation in an international conference in Melbourne, individuals with heart diseases had a significant higher number of resting dots especially in the upper middle zone of the letters 'a', 'e' and 'o'.

Many scientists believe there is not enough evidence to correlate heart disease with handwriting style, or to suggest that handwriting style can be used to accurately diagnose poor health.

Previous researches had studied the impact of several neurological conditions such as Parkinson's, Huntington's and Alzheimer's diseases on a person's handwriting

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