Well, the best solution is to have a heart attack. But if you have one, and admitted to hospital on a weekend, you have a 5 percent
higher risk of dying during the following months when you are on a working day.
That's the conclusion of a study of about 230,000 patients hospitalized for a first heart attack, published recently in the New England
Journal of Medicine. Most hospitals provide only emergency or urgent care on weekends and reduce their total staff as well as the
number of available experts to do invasive procedures like angioplasties.
But here is the blue sky: a large study in several centers in the U.S. discovered that you are least likely to suffer heart attacks during
the weekend and probably on a Monday.
And many studies have shown that they most commonly between the hours of 6 am and noon. Among the possible explanations for
this finding is that the level of blood pressure and stress hormone Epinephrine is often higher in the morning with an increased
tendency to formation of blood clot.
You can increase the risk of a heart attack tomorrow morning that aspirin use and blood pressure medicines that control blood
pressure during a complete period of 24 hours. Heart attacks are also more likely to be in the winter than in summer.
In fact, the weekend is not a good time in a hospital, period, regardless of health. Previous research showed that weekend
hospitalizations were associated with higher mortality for 23 of the 100 leading causes of death and mortality was not lower during
the weekend for some cause of death.
Of course, this knowledge does not mean that you can change the timing of heart attacks. In addition to following your doctor's
recommendations to reduce the overall risk of a heart attack, it is not possible for a weekend heart attack. And by all means not to a
hospital immediately if you suffer distressing pain in the chest for a weekend.
higher risk of dying during the following months when you are on a working day.
That's the conclusion of a study of about 230,000 patients hospitalized for a first heart attack, published recently in the New England
Journal of Medicine. Most hospitals provide only emergency or urgent care on weekends and reduce their total staff as well as the
number of available experts to do invasive procedures like angioplasties.
But here is the blue sky: a large study in several centers in the U.S. discovered that you are least likely to suffer heart attacks during
the weekend and probably on a Monday.
And many studies have shown that they most commonly between the hours of 6 am and noon. Among the possible explanations for
this finding is that the level of blood pressure and stress hormone Epinephrine is often higher in the morning with an increased
tendency to formation of blood clot.
You can increase the risk of a heart attack tomorrow morning that aspirin use and blood pressure medicines that control blood
pressure during a complete period of 24 hours. Heart attacks are also more likely to be in the winter than in summer.
In fact, the weekend is not a good time in a hospital, period, regardless of health. Previous research showed that weekend
hospitalizations were associated with higher mortality for 23 of the 100 leading causes of death and mortality was not lower during
the weekend for some cause of death.
Of course, this knowledge does not mean that you can change the timing of heart attacks. In addition to following your doctor's
recommendations to reduce the overall risk of a heart attack, it is not possible for a weekend heart attack. And by all means not to a
hospital immediately if you suffer distressing pain in the chest for a weekend.
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