The Monday following the daylight savings in the spring tends to cause a spike of heart attacks to occur. In 2014 the amount of heart attacks increased by 24% the Monday following the time change. The most at high risk people would be people who smoke, have a history of heart attacks in the family, and people who have high cholesterol or high blood pressure. If people start to feel chest pain they should take no extra second than to take themselves to the emergency room. In the same year they did a project and when people got the one hour of sleep back the heart attack percent went down 21%.
Questions:
- Why do you think the time change causes heart attacks to happen?
- How do you feel when time changes happen?
For more information about this: http://www.livescience.com/50068-daylight-saving-time-heart-attacks.html
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Well done!!
I believe it would have something to due with the way either the sea level changes, or daylight savings affects the forces that Earth is portraying upon the citizens when the days change, the amount of sunlight, gravity, and supernatural forces of the air around us changes, forcing adaptations that the body just cannot accept. I believe if it's giving me an extra hour of sleep, it's useful and I love it. But when it's potentially killing tens to thousands to tens of thousands of people, it needs to be taken care of. Fast.
I think that the time change would mess with people's sleeping schedules and that could interfere with health problems. When the time change happens, I am happy when we get an extra hour so we can sleep longer. When we loose a hour I don't like it because I loose sleep, but to me it makes me think that summer is right around the corner. :)
I think this is a really interesting study and I didn't realize that something as little as a one hour time change could cause something like this. I am not sure exactly why this occurs, but I think that it might have something to do with the lack of sleep that a lot of people can get from the time difference.
I think it effects it because of lack of sleep. I don't really like time changes, why can't they just stay the same forever? Are they really necessary?
I think it occurs because people aren't used to getting up at that time and it messes with their body so their body reacts in its own way. I feel really tired for about a week after the time changes then it goes back to normal.
I agree that it maybe occurs because the people are not used to it. So it messes their body up a little bit and some people maybe a lot so it causes worse things to happen than should. I am also tired when it first happens and for awhile I feel pretty exhausted. But yeah after a little bit I get used to it again and then feel normal again.
Well maybe because you lose an hour causing you to get less sleep which is hard on you causing you to have an heart attack, I guess i just dont understand how. More tired when we lose an hour but better when we gain an hour.
The time change might mess with people's heart rate, causing a heart attack. I really can't think o why. I don't feel a change, usually I don't even know one is going to happen/happening.
Possibly because their routine that they have in place helps keep them healthy and when it chances, it causes a disturbance. I like it when we gain an hour but losing an hour is annoying because we get less sleep.
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