Low IQ among strongest predictors of cardiovascular disease -- second only to cigarette smoking in large population study

ScienceDaily (2010-02-10) -- While lower intelligence scores have been associated with a raised risk of cardiovascular disease, no study has so far compared the relative strength of this association with other established risk factors. Now, a large study has found that lower intelligence scores were associated with higher rates of cardiovascular disease and total mortality at a greater level of magnitude than found with any other risk factor except smoking.