Risk of a heart attack spikes on Christmas Eve


By AGENCY

Researchers in Sweden have found that the risk of a heart attack is 37 higher than normal on Christmas eve. — TNS

If you think of the night before Christmas as a time for hot cocoa, cozy fires and Bing Crosby albums, a new discovery by Swedish researchers may well break your heart: The risk of suffering a heart attack spikes on Christmas Eve.

That finding is based on a comprehensive database of hospital statistics that includes 283,014 cases of heart attacks over a period of 16 years.

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