mo4ch:>Holiday buzzkill: This exact time on Christmas Eve carries highest heart attack risk of entire year | Mo4ch News
Most people deck the halls with boughs of holly during the holiday season, but others could find themselves pacing the halls of a hospital. A study found that people are most at risk of a heart attack on Christmas Eve.The study, published in the British Medical Journal, analyzed 238,000 heart attacks in Sweden between 1998 and 2013. An average of 50 heart attacks a day occurred, except on Christmas Eve, when that number spiked to 69 – a 37 percent increase.Read more But the researchers aren't only warning about the possibility of cardiac arrest on Christmas Eve. They've even pinpointed a time at which people are most at risk – 10pm. Most of the incidents they analyzed occurred around that time.Although the authors couldn't determine an exact reason as to why Christmas Eve seems to be the day of heart attacks, it's possible that certain emotional factors are brought to the forefront during that time.“We do not know for sure but emotional distress with acute experience of…