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All Rights Reserved. Per mmUte rates ,or mternahonal calls terminating on wireless devices may apply Univer sal Connectivity Charge also applies I some states, a monthly In-state Chaotic heart bea" common in winter An tit BERLIN (AP» - The 1^ hiRxl ot being admitted toy pital or dying \s iih atrial fiy lion, a life-threatening cm heartbeat common amotwi elderly, increases dramay during «inter months, $ research indicates. A study found that people aged 75-84, hov% admissions for atrial fibnlk.; vs ere 25 jverccnt higher d average in the w inter, and tq Is 40 percent higher than si mal for those 85 and older | The study, presented d I t is the e take. Wii “lots of l and sorority Review ask? Indents acn Heir school: H cording tc Har. the cot Ijt iorious Bi cl tssilicatioi HThk>I will gt a long w; ■ The AM this categor ■I, Princeto week at a me •cling of i ■ MA repor Europe :an S iiKietv | Hudents in i Card to deaths logy iron . als » the i o found d condition Koport tonal ■iggests sot higher in w inter. advice: y H* ml mg the The do dors’ Kctable mat warm. gel a flu shot and q I Secondly ^Kasons oth< The diM irder affects pea ■■gues “prir of ail ages . but is jxirtKiiii ing patterns com me »n ai tiong the eldeif | Hcnts that e afflicts abot it 10 { percent of |d Experience.' pie old ler tl Dan 7 5. include; The new'l million in tl tie Un i ted State* l niversity o Will ng poptilx Similar grou and a g :rcat« ■ r pro portion ol Seview on / pie su irv iv mg heart jua... Vey. UNH cl experts prc< Jict tl iat the nuts^ Bigs, it has 1 of case :s °f atria 1 fibnllaiKti drinking in i likely to tt icreas <e in the re Bkc flauntin decade already kno* ”Gi ven l the al most untvev - an acknowle problci of peak »icr AMA's rece detnant is or 1 hOSf ntals in ate v CBS re pc all countric s with vanahk. dodged resp malic c n>ndi it ions and the Id® rianeck clai hood c if an i epkj lemic of a Source of ini fibrillat lion in the near ME quick to poii these rep re mgs.” said the study’s “It is p that ere ate i >ent significant ■;&- Dr. Simon Swan lead imestiptoe fssihle. for cub^ efforts can fieta'i ‘ stone sober Another 1 ing to the A! Princeton R< ousting the ( press.” Final essentially a corned with aims to mak It is prob; cost? It bens in the short i jnent it may David Wt onducts an , (CAS). This ■ege campus alcohol abus Many sta Tie survey ( ^ed on camp :ampus rape leclares the associated w It is unlik battems one severe probh chinking; the ichools" are :>ehind the v\ :> rinceton Re recognize th< ay advertisit to warn high risk patients cl dangers of inadequate hes and clothing, the need for" vaccinations and the need limit alcohol intake.’ Stew art, a professor of cardn gy at the Queen Eliwbf Hospital in Adelaide. Austraiu “As atrial fibrillation is ofi a precursor to stroke and te* failure twei of the most cos ly. deadly and disabling of<fc eases the potential to w lives, and money, is enormous, he said. Researchers have alreav determined that heart attacks heart failure and heart-relaif’ sudden deaths are more o mon in winter. , Although experts were 1X1 (fge gu»dew surprised at the findings, il^f said the study is the first todoc ument a seasonal influence <* chaotic heart rhythm. “That is the time forfiua^ pneumonia and we know that may be a cause of atni fibrillation.” said Dr. Yves Le Heuzey, an atrial k filiation specialist at the Pi err ’ and Marie Curie University» Paris. Atrial fibrillation occur’ when the two small upper chan)- bers of the heart (the atru quiver instead of beating e,tt MjHninht lively. Blood isn’t pumpedcott *VMUmym pletely out of them, so it i" 3 IPiapprop pool and clot. Clots that traveli the brain can cause strokes. At the Aug. . The disturbances can h a junior and s< anywhere from a few seconds tc each told joke a lifetime. stereotypes of About 15 percent G f stroke jokes seemed occur in people with atrial fM' dous intent, U lation. ‘according to tMmd the jokes American Heart Association. However, jus i ., . . ....cp-irchef' Wlt h ethnic ste In the study, the research used a nationwide regislry «' disease and tlealh in Scotlanjl 10 ' ® idemify all hospital adtimsi* hurtfu| y P; hj|e related to chaotic l>ea not 5eem to b fSSi ' . ^ et , we f n ‘^IJi.l'dofthemsc 1996 and all deaths occurring ^ m . nc those patients between I > » exjsts on the £ '‘There were “iS 120 hospini * 8M h35 , 5tru 8 adniission^relatcd to chao* 0) ^xual tneq heart beat — about 93 adrni 5 sions a day. . Significantly more P e0 7 were checked into the hospital 1 the winter than in the summer In both men and women, t e peak rate was in Decemb^ Hospital admissions were 9 cent higher than normal amor- men and 12 percent higher than The Battalion and include the i Ireserves the right fed in person at C ailed to: 014 Re 7843-1111. Fax:
