Does the rate of heart attack and other heart emergencies increase during sporting events?
That's the questions asked by researchers in a study (http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/short/358/5/475) published recently in the New England Journal of Medicine. They determined that soccer fans experienced more than double the number of heart attacks while watching televised matches of the 2006 World Cup soccer championships in Munich, Germany, compared to other times of the year. (The World...
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A recent study published in the Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry has found that people who feel lonely are significantly... Read more »
This week, I walked away smiling from one of those places that I least expected it, the dentist’s office. Although my dentists (a husband... Read more »
Every day, it seems, there's another gloomy news story saying that "diabetics" are more apt to acquire other medical problems, or drugs... Read more »
Research indicates that colder weather during the winter months can actually result in an increase in cardiovascular events, particularly... Read more »
Stop smoking If you smoke, your risk of developing heart disease is 2-4 times higher than a nonsmoker. You've doubled your risk of having a heart attack if you smoke a pack of cigarettes per day. This applies to you if you smoke cigars or pipes...
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