A serious illness can be identified by expression

If your face is impenetrable in any strong shocks, both positive and negative, it is not a reason to be proud of their own exposure. In fact, you need to immediately go to the doctor to check your heart and lungs.

facial expression

Scientists from the School of Medicine Indiana University found that people who are not able to reflect on his face the emotions of surprise, may be suffering from serious heart disease and light. It was found that such cardiac and pulmonary patients demonstrate the lack of facial expressions, most often, they are not able to look surprised.

Problems with expression   patients may assist physicians in the emergency department to prioritize that someone examine in the first place, and who can wait. In the study, Similar problems often showed patients with shortness of breath and pain in the breasts that come with any complaints to doctors. These patients investigators quickly reveals a funny picture (enlarged surprised face) as well as the image of a man in tears. All this was to cause them some facial expressions .

Expressions recorded with a special system of recognition of emotions on the faces, which monitors changes in the activity of facial muscles by measuring the length of a smile, for frown and wonder. In the last step all the patients tested for the presence of serious pulmonary and heart disease, including heart attacks, heart failure, COPD, thrombi in lung, pneumonia and cancer. Inspections continued for 7 days, and this time, severe lung and heart diseases were diagnosed in 16% patients. It is these patients showed the poorest facial expressions. (READ MORE)

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