Daylight saving time linked to heart attacks: study

Reuters via Yahoo ^ | March 29, 2014 | Ransdell Pierson and Bill Berkrot

[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.

[don-o]

I KNEW it! "Savings" time is deadly.

[MeshugeMikey]

deadly perhaps,,,a PITA absolutely!

[don-o]

PITA?

[ProtectOurFreedom]

The research is clearly flawed. We all know heart attacks are caused by global warming.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

“Pain In The Keister”

[MeshugeMikey]

Stop Anthropogenic Global Heart Attacks NOW....

[MeshugeMikey]

as in pain in the arse.

the daylights “saved” for the early evening....is stolen for the daylight of the early morning hours.

[freedomfiter2]

Yes, it’s a well known fact that getting up one hour earlier will kill you.I wonder if going to bed an hour later would have the same effect.

[BenLurkin]

It is totally unnecessary and arbitrary exercise of government power.

[Flick Lives]

The research is clearly flawed. We all know heart attacks are caused by global warming.

You know, that's funny. (Of course the less funny thing is one could likely apply for a 3-year grant to study that very topic.)

[Up Yours Marxists]

Been doing this crap for nearly 5 decades. Didn’t have to start until I was in my thirties.

I really didn’t do well at first. So I tried something back in the late 60’s and it’s worked for me ever since. I rolled my alarm back 10 minutes each of the 6 weeks before that magic fascist government date. Then I would go to bed 10 minutes earlier.

By the time I hit the stupid Spring day, I’m already there.

[iontheball]

I believe the following related subject may have come up before, but mornings are generally recognized as a critical time when heart attacks/strokes may occur. This raises an issue of when someone should take meds for blood pressure, heart attack, and stroke prevention. Many take their meds in the morning. My personal, non-expert medical observation is that such medicine should be taken in the evening before retiring so the medication is present and active when one wakes up.

[1010RD]

Instituted by FDR, America’s favorite socialist.

[JPG]

The real killer is Obamacare.

[Sam Cree]

East to west jet lag can’t be good, then.

[fatnotlazy]

I dunno. All 3 of my Dad’s heart attacks occurred during EST as did my cardiac arrest in 2008.

More unsubstantiated hogwash from the junk science community?

[The Great RJ]

While it is nice to have an hour of longer daylight in the evenings during the summer, I fail to see how daylight savings time saves any energy or serves any other useful purpose. When first proposed by Ben Franklin, daylight savings time might have made sense when candles were the main source of illumination. However, in modern buildings with sophisticated energy management systems and many businesses operating 24 hours a day that extra hour of daylight in my mind doesn't mean any energy savings. Even in homes the only difference in electricity use might be not turning on lights so early, but that is minuscule compared to running the air conditioner, refrigerators etc. that operate without respect to daylight.

[hattend]

Everybody drive/fly to Arizona on the time change day, problem solved.

[txrefugee]

The federal government doesn’t care how many people die with heart attacks and in accidents as a result of daylight savings time as long as the lobbyists for the Restaurant Association and the golf courses are happy.

Having small children waiting for school buses in the dark almost year round should be labeled “child abuse.” But as long as the golfers are happy, it’s fine.

[B4Ranch]

My MD says that most daily medicine should be taken in the evening before retiring so the medication is absorbed while the body is at rest.