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 Watch Out: Daylight Saving Time May Cause Heart Attack Spike As people set their clocks forward an hour for daylight saving time this Sunday (March 8), they may also want to take extra care of their heart. In fact, the number of heart attacks increased 24 percent on the Monday following a daylight saving time, compared with the daily average for the weeks surrounding the start of daylight saving time, according to a 2014 study in the journal Open Heart. With this in mind, people who are at risk of a heart attack — such as those who smoke, have a strong family history of heart attack or have high cholesterol or high blood pressure — shouldn't delay a trip to the emergency room if they feel chest pain, said senior researcher Dr. Hitinder Gurm, an interventional cardiologist and an associate professor of internal medicine at the University of Michigan Health System. In the study, Gurm and his colleagues tallied the number of hospital admissions for heart attacks in Michigan from Jan. 1, 2010, and Sept. 15, 2013, using a large insurance database. Read More »Why Some People May Be Harder Hit by Daylight Saving Time The transition to daylight saving time this Sunday at 2 a.m. may be particularly hard for people who are unhealthy, a new study suggests. Researchers found that people who are obese or have obesity-related health problems have higher amounts of "social jet lag," which is when the body's internal clock is out of sync with a person's social and work clocks. Daylight saving time can worsen this condition. Social jet lag can be measured as the difference in people's sleep patterns between the days they work and the days they have off, which for many people translates to the amount of sleep they get on weekdays compared with the weekend. Read More » | ||||
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