Winter holidays are peak time for heart attacks
It’s the grimmest of holiday statistics: Heart-attack deaths peak on three days of the year, and one of them is Christmas. The other two are the day after Christmas and New Year’s Day- air max shoes .
Stevens says the father of one of her patients died just that way, during a snowstorm last year: “The gentleman went out to shovel and get the cars ready, despite his wife giving him warning,” she says. “She found him dead in the car, reaching for the glove compartment, where his nitroglycerin was- air max sale .”
Then there’s Christmas. David John, an emergency-room physician for 20 years, can’t say that he’s noticed the holiday death surge, which was first documented in a 30-year study led by Phillips and published in 2004. But one explanation rings true to him: People feeling sick around Christmas or New Year’s may put off getting help and end up dead.
That leaves at least one more suspect, Kloner says: “The stress. Facing relatives, buying gifts, trying to find a parking space in a busy mall.”
And now add one more stressor: Worrying about having a holiday heart attack.
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