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Daylight saving time linked to heart attacks: study
Reuters via Yahoo ^ | March 29, 2014 | Ransdell Pierson and Bill Berkrot

Posted on 03/29/2014 7:54:37 AM PDT by don-o

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Switching over to daylight saving time, and losing one hour of sleep, raised the risk of having a heart attack the following Monday by 25 percent, compared to other Mondays during the year, according to a new U.S. study released on Saturday.

By contrast, heart attack risk fell 21 percent later in the year, on the Tuesday after the clock was returned to standard time, and people got an extra hour's sleep.

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To: don-o

100% are caused by the sun rising each day.


21 posted on 03/29/2014 12:32:10 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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Not being a statistician (I can barely do simple addition) I must ask....does this mean that there are 25% more heart attacks on this *particular *Monday than on the other 51?
22 posted on 03/29/2014 1:11:56 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Stalin Blamed The Kulaks,Obama Blames The Tea Party)
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