More TV, more deadly heart disease

The Chicago Sun-Times reports:

Hey, couch potatoes, you might want to put down the remote for this: The more TV you watch, the more likely you could be to die of heart disease and other causes, new research suggests.

People who watched more than four hours of TV a day had an 80 percent higher risk of dying of heart disease and a 46 percent higher risk of dying from all causes than those who watched less than two hours daily, the study found. The study wasn't designed to establish whether there's a cause-and-effect relationship.