Does Your Handwriting Reveal that You Have Heart Disease?
A handwriting expert from Wiltshire, England asked 61 heart patients from Pool Hospital in Swindon to provide handwriting samples for her, then compared these to samples provided by people without any cardiovascular disease.
“I’ve found one particular movement in the writing, although I actually believe there’s far more than just the one link, and my research is going to be continuing, looking to see if I can find those other links as well,” said Christina Strang (the Graphologist).
She asked each person to write down 100 words about a holiday or something, but she only analyzed the last 30 words because this is when they are relaxed and write naturally.
Strang discovered that handwriting samples from heart patients contained twice as many “resting dots,” produced when the pen pauses on a piece of paper for mere milliseconds, as the samples from healthy people.
“These resting dots can be because the heart misses a beat or a sudden pain,” Strang hypothesized.
Strang also hopes to see whether the same signs can also be used to detect the early stages of other chronic conditions, such as diabetes and arthritis.
It’s amazing how many different ways people are using as tools to help identify heart disease. Is this possible?
