So have at it sports fans. I don't follow any sports so this wouldn't apply to me anyway.
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European Academy of Neurology
Being excited for your team, rooting them on and suffering
vicariously with them are the grand emotions that wash over spectators
of football matches. If this increases the risk of stroke remains to be
elucidated, as the number of strokes that occur on days with major
matches is not significantly higher than on days when no football is
played. This is the conclusion of a Portuguese study that was presented
today at the Second Congress of the European Academy of Neurology (EAN)
in Copenhagen.
Many studies suggest that stress during crucial
matches can trigger heart attacks or strokes in passionate football
fans. A group of researchers from Lisbon has now examined data from 2012
to 2015 to determine how high the risk actually is of enthusiasm at a
football match triggering a stroke. The study focused on hospital
statistics around crucial matches of the three best Portuguese clubs. As
it turned out, there were 72 strokes on and after match days and 52
during comparable periods when no matches were played. Study author Dr
Cláudia Borbinha from Hospital Egas Moniz, Lisbon, Portugal, issued an
all-clear signal anyway: “The absolute number of strokes during football
matches may have been higher but it was not an above-average outlier.
Our data therefore furnishes no significant indications of a correlation
between enthusiasm for football and increased risk of stroke.”
Source: EAN 2016 Abstract Borbinha C et al, Football: passion, indifference or vascular risk?
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