22 percent of them born elsewhere
Zurich, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Only a minority of Swiss think there are too many foreigners living in the country, Country-wide, 45.7 percent of those asked say that there are too many foreigners living in Switzerland, while 53.7 percent say the number of non-Swiss is not too high.
A slim majority of Swiss Germans (50.9 percent) believe there are too many foreigners, while the French-speaking cantons (67.3 percent) and Italian-speakers in Ticino (61.3 percent) are more open towards foreigners, according to the poll by Isopublic, published by Swiss newspaper Tagesanzeiger Saturday 7 November.
For the heart, better up than down: the Swiss Alps and Lake Geneva
Zurich, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Researchers at the University of Zurich, in a study of 1.6 million German-speaking Swiss people over a 10-year period, confirm that the risk of having a heart attack or stroke is dramatically lower if you live above 1,000 metres, and that climate is probably a key factor. Previous studies have provided conflicting results, in part because of the mixed populations studied, say authors David Faeh, Felix Gutzwiller and Matthias Bopp for the Swiss National Study Cohort Group.
The people with the lowest risk are those born at high altitude who continue to live there, their study shows.
The risk of coronary heart disease falls by 22 percent for each 1,000 metres of altitude and the risk of stroke drops by 12 percent per 1,000m. The study included men and women ages 40 to 84, who lived at altitudes ranging from 259 metres to 1960m.
American Heart Association, 28 July 2009
