In 2008, a team of doctors led by Ute Wilbert-Lampen gathered reports from hospitals around the Munich area and analyzed rates of cardiovascular events During the 2006 World Cup. They compared hospitalizations for Heart attacks on the seven days the German national team competed with hospitalizations on the 24 days when the Germans didn't play. (They looked at periods immediately preceding and following the World Cup too.) After controlling for environmental factors like temperature and air pollution, Wilbert-Lampern and his colleagues calculated that Germans' Risk of ending up in hospital for a Heart Attack or cardiac arrhythmia was 2.66 times greater on match days involving the German team than During the control periods. Read more...
06-13-2014, 08:30 PM
Soccer Fans' Heart Attack Risk Spikes During World Cup Matches
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