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Page 8/The Battalion/Thursday, June 11, 1987
Stock prices
show gain
in trading
NEW YORK (AP) — The stock
market rode out alternating waves of
buying and selling to post a small
gain Wednesday in stepped-up trad
ing.
The Dow Jones average of 30 in
dustrials, up about 30 points and
down about 15 at its midsession ex
tremes, closed with a gain of .91 at
2,353.61.
Volume on the New York Stock
Exchange reached 197.44 million
shares, up from 164.18 million in
the previous session.
Interest rates dropped in early ac
tivity, giving stock prices a lift.
Treasury Secretary James Baker
said the economic summit that con
cluded in Venice Wednesday had
produced “real progress” on a vari
ety of issues.
Brokers also said expectations are
running high for second-quarter
earnings reports, which will start
coming out less than a month from
now.
That helped prompt some invest
ing institutions to step up their buy
ing in order to show increased stock
holdings when they make their mid
year reports to clients at the end of
June, analysts said.
But the bond market gave up
most of its gains as the session pro
gressed. That, in turn, touched off a
wave of afternoon selling in the
stock market, which left prices fluc
tuating erratically just before the
close.
With all its Fits and starts, the mar
ket managed to post its third straight
gain this week. The Dow Jones in
dustrial average shows a net advance
of 27.46 points since last Friday’s
close.
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Scientist finds clotting of blood
more likely to occur in morning
BOSTON (AP) — People’s blood is more likely to clot
shortly after they get out of bed, a discovery that may
explain why heart attacks are most common in the
morning, a study concludes.
One researcher speculated that (he clotting phenom
enon could be an evolutionary result of animals begin
ning their day lighting for food and needing protection
against the risk of being cut.
The new study found that the tendency of blood to
form clots — known as platelet aggregability — is high
est between 6 a.m. and 9 a.m.
Two years ago, Dr. James E. Muller of Harvard Med
ical School published a study showing that heart attacks
are most common in the morning. They are three times
more likely to happen at 9 a.m. than at 1 1 p.m.
Usually a heart attack occurs when a blood clot blocks
an artery that feeds the heart. The heart muscle is
starved of oxygen, and some of it dies.
Muller and colleagues theorized that blood cells
known as platelets, which clump together to form clots
to plug holes in blood vessels, might play a role in the
daily rhythm of heart attack.
The latest research, directed by Dr. Geoffrey H.
Toller, a member of Muller’s research team, confirms
that idea. It found “a marked increase in platelet aggre
gability” in the morning.
“We have I think, at least part of the explatBli
the morning peak in heart attacks,” Muller said '
may not lie the only event in the morning thatp
poses to thrombosis (clotting), but it’s likely tobtt
them.”
1 he researchers l>elieve that clotting powers
influenced by the sympathetic nervous systeir:.
oversees the production of epinephrine andotl»t
mones that help people deal with stressful sit®
The body begins pumping out these hormones;
as people awaken.
“Morning is a time of activation of the sympe
nervous system, which in evolutionary termsisfe
tern that prepares an animal for fight or flight,"Itt
“If the blood becomes more coagulable, thau
have evolutionary advantage for animals becaut
would be better off if they clotted more readik
they got cut in a fight."
Finding the underlying cause of morninght;
tacks is important, Muller said. "If we can urnfe
why they are increased in the morning, we haven
better shot at preventing these disorders,”hesaid
He said the findings reinforce the lieliefthat,
aspirin tablet can ward off heart attacks by sb .
blood’s tendency to clot.
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