Men who don’t shave every day enjoy less sex and are 70 per cent more likely to suffer a stroke than daily shavers, a study shows.
A Bristol University team which examined the link between shaving, heart disease and stroke in 2,438 middleaged Welsh men, said men who did not shave every day were more likely to suffer a heart attack.
Over the course of the 20year study, there were 835 deaths, the American Journal of Epidemiology reported. In all, 45 per cent of the men who shaved less than daily died, compared with 31 per cent of those who shaved at least daily.
Many of the excess deaths were due to higher rates of smoking and the poorer lifestyles of men who did not shave daily but the scientists said this did not explain their substantially raised risk of strokes.
The findings show that men who don’t shave every day are less likely to be married and are more likely to be blue-collar workers. They also have fewer orgasms, tend to be shorter, and to suffer from angina.
Reuters London