Posted on 02/24/2010 10:02:20 PM PST by Steelfish
At Closing Plant, Ordeal Included Heart Attacks By MICHAEL LUO February 24, 2010
A few weeks after that, a co-worker, Bob Smith, 42, a forklift operator with four young children, started having chest pains. He learned at the doctor’s office that he was having a heart attack. Surgeons inserted three stents, saving his life. Less than a month later, Don Turner, 55, a crane operator who had started at the mills as a teenager, was found by his wife, Darlene, slumped on a love seat, stricken by a fatal heart attack.
It is impossible to say exactly why these men, all in relatively good health, had heart attacks within weeks of one another. But interviews with friends and relatives of Mr. Kull and Mr. Turner, and with Mr. Smith, suggest that the trauma of losing their jobs might have played a role.
“He was really, really worried,” George Kull III said of his father. “With his age, he didn’t know where he would get another job, or if he would get another job.”
A growing body of research suggests that layoffs can have profound health consequences. One 2006 study by a group of epidemiologists at Yale found that layoffs more than doubled the risk of heart attack and stroke among older workers. Another paper, published last year by Kate W. Strully, a sociology professor at the State University of New York at Albany, found that a person who lost a job had an 83 percent greater chance of developing a stress-related health problem, like diabetes, arthritis or psychiatric issues.
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So Obama 10% national unemployment has massively aggravated the health crisis?
On the other hand...the wives are probably lucky...because the men would have started beating them because of unemployment if they hadn’t died or had heart attacks from job loss.
Well that is Sen. Reid’s thesis. Unemployment leads to abusive behavior.
One needs to maintain a cowboy attitude/mindset.
Remember that Zer0 is a f'n retard (per Rahm)
...if it doesn’t lead to serious health issues...it leads to men beating their women.
And all this time I thought it was the Super Bowl that caused that.
That is, until VAWA solved the problem. You telling me it didn't?
Yeah, but, OTOH, those wives can count their lucky stars they lived through the Super Bowl weekend.
If they're trying to sell the notion that when plants aren't closing there are no heart attacks and hear attack deaths, I ain't buying.
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