According to a new study, those who skip breakfast might experience an increased risk of heart attack after they turn 45.

The new Harvard study released by the journal Circulation, was an observational study that claimed a correlation between the lack of breakfast intake and a rise in probability for coronary complications. The study of older men finds that breakfast-skippers experience a 27% higher risk for heart attacks than those who do not.

Previous studies have connected the consumption of the most important meal of the day to obesity, diabetes, and high blood pressure; however, no study before had attempted to look at long term risks created by the busy students and businessmen.

The experts who engineered the study claims that the reason why skipping breakfast takes a toll on the heart is because those who don't eat breakfast are more likely to overeat during the day and eat larger meals. These meals would create higher calorie intakes and create more sugar in the blood, thus can generate clogged arteries that make the heart pump harder to get its job done.

The survey was based on data from approximately 27,000 men in 1992. 13% of the men had regularly skipped breakfast as educated professionals 45 or older. In the 16 years that passed, 1527 of them had experienced heart attacks, out of which 171 do not regularly consume their first meal in the mornings.

The increased risk was calculated at 27%, accounting for biases due to diet, drinking, smoking, and other health problems like obesity and high blood pressure. According to federal reports, 18% of the U.S. Adults are skipping breakfast regularly.

Are you one of them? Some of us might like to live past 45.