Bitter cold damages your heart
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To find out more or sign up go to uk.movember.com. moustache in COLD weather can trigger a heart attack, scientists say.
A study in Sweden found people were more likely to be struck down when the thermometer dropped below freezing.
Heart attacks happen when fats build up in the arteries and form clots restricting blood flow.
Professor David Erlinge said: “Days with low air temperature and atmospheric pressure, high wind velocity and shorter periods of sunshine were associated with risk of heart attack. A higher risk is when air temperatures were less than 0 degrees C (32F).”
He said rates “declined when temperatures rose to 3C to 4C” and “coronary constriction is the most probable cause. Beta-blockers and aspirin could blunt the possible associations of external triggers through widening of the blood vessels”.
The study of more than 274,000 over-50s is published in JAMA Cardiology.
In the UK more than 200,000 hospital visits each year are due to heart attacks – one every three minutes.