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Hearing Things to Say -- Peter Himmelman
The Most Heart Attack-Prone Time of the Year
You better watch out -- Christmas is a killer:
Christmas is the deadliest day of the year for Americans with 12.4 percent more deaths than normal, researchers said on Monday.
More Americans die from heart attacks and other natural causes on Christmas, the day after and on New Year's Day than on any other days of the year, the researchers reported.
It is probably because people are feeling too busy or too festive to go to the hospital over the winter holiday season, the researchers wrote in Monday's issue of the journal Circulation.
So, here's the thing, folks: If you feel a little tightness in your chest on Christmas Day, don't just chalk it up to some bad egg nog. They keep the hospitals open for a reason. And we'd like to see you around for another Christmas, too.
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Sad but a fact. I was just talking w/a friend last evening about this very subject. Stress is the main facter. People put too much into getting just the right gift. Too much of anything is not healthy. I like Karen's comment. My mother was holding on so she could make it to the millinnium but sucumed Christmas Eve 1999.
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My Aunt Flora died on Dec. 26, almost a decade ago. My theory has always been that people who are dying often do the "will to live" thing long enough to reach Christmas, their birthday, or some other event they want to be around for. I don't think that explains Aunt Flora, or override the bad-eating-and-overexertion angle, but it is a factor IMO. - Karen
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12/14/04 8:16 PM
John G.