Posted on 02/07/2005 6:32:48 AM PST by presidio9
It's not just your imagination - Monday mornings can really kill you!
Scientists have discovered that people's blood pressure is higher on the first day of the week than on any other day.
New research may explain why the number of people suffering heart attacks and strokes rises on a Monday.
Hypertension - or high blood pressure - puts strain on the heart so leads to life-threatening illnesses in some patients.
Researchers in Japan measured the blood pressure of 175 volunteers throughout a week and the results suggest that after a relatively relaxing weekend people's blood pressure shoots up on a Monday morning.
Dr Shuogo Murakami, who led the research, said: "Most people are free of the mental and physical burdens of work on a Sunday and eperience a more stressful change from weekend leisure activities to work activities on a Monday.
"There was a distinct peak on Mondays in the study."
People with hypertension are usually treated with medication but can also be helped by changing diet and exercise.
Yet heart disease remains the UK's biggest cause of death - 270,000 people suffer a heart attack each year.
When blood pressure rises the lining of the coronary arteries are likely to be put under stress and this may lead to clogging with fatty deposits causing a narrowing in places.
When blood pressure rises the lining of the coronary arteries are likely to be put under stress and this may lead to clogging with fatty deposits causing a narrowing in places.Also, the silicon chip inside your head can switch to overload. >:o
-Eric
Monday's are a heck of a way to spend 1/7th of one's life.
Having worked in an ER, Full Moon Nights are much worse than Mondays! All the loonies are out, hurting themselves and one another in incredibly inventive ways.
We used to circle those nights with a big red marker on our calendar and brace ourselves for the onslaught.
As a school administrator, I concur with this. Full moons cause the werewolf in every middle school child to appear. The manifestations result in more fights, discipline referrals, and temper flare ups.
It certainly is a rough go for me after about 5 p.m.....newspaper deadline night. Pure hell.
It seems that it was those days that I got into trouble. Almost every time.
My mom works at the front desk of a hospital and says the same. More people come in during full moons.
Of course, studies have disproven this, but you can twist any study you want.
It is clear that more people come in during full moons.
I think I'll go back to bed and pull the covers over my head...
Or as sung by Bob Geldof of the Boomtown Rats:
The silicon chip inside her head
Gets switched to overload,
And nobody's gonna go to school today,
She's going to make them stay at home,
And daddy doesn't understand it,
He always said she was as good as gold,
And he can see no reason
Cos there are no reasons
What reason do you need to be shown
Tell me why
I Don't like Mondays
I want to shoot
The whole day down
The Telex machine is kept so clean
As it types to a waiting world,
And Mother feels so shocked,
Father's world is rocked,
And their thoughts turn to
Their own little girl
Sweet 16 ain't that peachy clean,
No, it ain't so neat to admit defeat,
They can see no reasons
Cos there are no reasons
What reason do you need to be shown
Tell me why
I Don't like Mondays
I want to shoot
The whole day down
All the playing's stopped in the playground now
She wants to play with her toys a while
And school's out early and soon we'll be learning
And the lesson today is how to die,
And then the bullhorn crackles,
And the captain tackles,
With the problems and the how's and why's
And he can see no reasons
Cos there are no reasons
What reason do you need to die, die, die
The silicon chip inside her head...
Tell me why
I Don't like Mondays
I want to shoot
The whole day down
Tell me why
I Don't like Mondays
I want to shoot
The whole day down
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