(Cara Murez/ Healthday) — The winter holidays are a time of celebrating and sharing precious time with family and friends, but they can also be deadly: More people die of heart attacks on Christmas Day than on any other day of the year.
Experts aren’t certain what’s behind that troubling fact, but they offer some suggestions to help ensure that you and your loved ones aren’t among them.
“The holidays are a busy, often stressful, time for many of us. Routines are disrupted; we may tend to eat and drink more and exercise and relax less. We’re getting too little sleep and experiencing too much stress,” said Dr. Mitchell Elkind, chief clinical science officer for the American Heart Association (AHA).
“We also may not be listening to our bodies or paying attention to warning signs, thinking a trip to the doctor can wait until after the new year,” he added. (…)