DID YOU KNOW?

More deaths occur on a Monday than any other day

Heart attacks, arrhythmias and sudden cardiac death are more common on Mondays than on other days of the week.

No one knows why, but the stress of returning to work or unhealthy behaviours such as binge drinking over the weekend are possibilities. If so, one would expect the Monday excess to disappear in people who are past retirement age, and that’s more or less what a follow-up study in Manitoba, Canada, found. In men under 50, more than 40% of sudden unexpected cardiac deaths occurred on a Monday but, as the group studied got older, this proportion fell.