Go cold on winter bath

COULD a bath in winter raise your risk of a heart attack?

A team of researchers in Japan found 49 per cent of people who had heart attacks in the bath had them between December and February – their winter.

They suggested the sudden switch from the cold outside temperature to the warm bath could put the heart under stress. Showers do not cause such a sudden shock reaction, as they do not raise core body temperature as much.

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