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Diagonal ear-lobe crease: possible significance as cardio-vascular risk factor and its relationship to
M Romoli1, G Tordini, A Giommi
1S.I.R.A.A. - Societa Italiana di Riflessoterapia, Agopuntura, Auricoloterapia, Prato, Italy.
Acupuncture & Electro-Therapeutics Research
|January 1, 1989
Abstract:
The diagonal ear-lobe crease, detectable especially after the age of 40, is still accepted as a sign of coronary heart disease risk. In the literature some authors report an association between anxiety and coronary heart disease. In our work a group of 143 patients with ear-lobe crease showed - in both sexes and in all examined decades (5th, 6th, 7th) - higher levels of anxiety than in the control group. The possible significance of the crease has been considered on the grounds of present knowledge of ear-acupuncture and the somatotopic mapping of CNS on the ear-lobe.