Summer: Men and Cases

attack: Earlier studies have looked at anger and exertion as heart attack triggers but most were small or in one country, or included few women or minorities, according to Globe and Mail. The new study involved 12,461 people suffering a first heart attack in 52 countries. Results were published Monday in the Heart Association journal Circulation. Their average age was 58, and three-fourths were men. That way researchers could compare risk at different times in the same people and the effect of these potential heart attack triggers. They answered a survey about whether they were angry or upset, or had heavy exertion, in the hour before their heart attack or during the same time period the previous day. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.